Brian Celio Quotes
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.
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I just want to work with the best people I can get my hands on.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
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Get tough: don't work under pressure; work over pressure.
