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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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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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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When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves - the misfits.
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Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
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We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.
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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.
