Eric Brown Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
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I have always loathed working out.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
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You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
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With sociology one can do anything and call it work.
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You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?) (Hays translation)
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Do I stress you out? My sweater is on backwards and inside out and you say 'How appropriate'
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Nada termina sin romperse, porque todo es sin fin.
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Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.
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Civility is not simply about manners.
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There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
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It's a balancing act of you feel horrible that you're away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating.
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We leave it to the people's discernment on whether their attacks on the president are in keeping with their role as church leaders.
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I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.
