Brian Dunkleman Quotes
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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.
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All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
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Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
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In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.
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Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
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Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter.
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Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.
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When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.
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Some of my favorite shows are Ricky Gervais' 'Extras' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'
