Brian Baumgartner Quotes
Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly defeating, on your way. That's a given. Just wipe out the very notion of stress. Concentrate on your actors. Obsess about your story and the world it is anchored in. Deal with the hundreds of down-to-earth issues [around] the existence of your film. At some point, everything will be ripe. And you wouldn't be able to stop your film from coming to life even if you wanted to.
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.
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Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
