Eric Brown Quotes
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
Quotes to Explore
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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They hate whom they fear.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.
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Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.
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I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
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I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.
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I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
