Jamie Brewer Quotes
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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Playing the greatest warrior in the seven kingdoms, that's absolutely no pressure. It didn't help, during the casting, the director kept saying, 'Remember, you're the most legendary swordsman ever.' I said, 'Great. I'll try and convey that in my four lines of dialogue.'
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I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.
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As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
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I want to make sure I don't leave any money for my kids, so I'm going to spend it all on clothes.
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What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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I've done a lot of ensemble work, and I like that.
