Brenda Laurel Quotes
I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.
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I'm cranky.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.
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Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.
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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?
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Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.
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I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.
