Brett Dier Quotes
Every year I try and challenge myself more and more, whether it be acting or everything I do. I just want to try and be better than the year before.
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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Juggling being a mom and an entertainer is a challenge I face every day.
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When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?
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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?
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Every year I try and challenge myself more and more, whether it be acting or everything I do. I just want to try and be better than the year before.
