Brian Azzarello Quotes
When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
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My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
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Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.
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I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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Any movie I've done, my character has had a secret. Whether it's in the movie or not, it is usually never and it's usually not something I tell anybody. It is for me.
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
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Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
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If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.
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When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.
