Brent Weeks Quotes
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.
Quotes to Explore
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
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I am inspired and would love to work with Jack Garrett, Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots, and Jack Antonoff.
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I don't know if you've ever tried to run through waist-deep snow, but it's next to impossible.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of being psychotic and crazy. Really it's not it's just sitting down having a conversation.
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Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.
