Brendan I. Koerner Quotes
The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
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I made Children of God because I had to make it. And with Cargo, I also felt like I had to. The impulse comes from something deep inside. Wanting to my country to be better. Because of where we are, we don't always have spaces to reflect.
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I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
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It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
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I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
