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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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
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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.
