Brendan Behan Quotes
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.
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Britney and I wore matching denim outfits [to the 2001 American Music Awards]. Yeah, another bad choice. I'd probably pay good money to get some of those pictures off the internet.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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I just plug in and let go.
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
