Brian Cox Quotes
I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I'm totally comfortable with myself.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
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The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
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Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.
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I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.
