Brian Eno Quotes
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
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The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.
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The post-war 'publish or perish' tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. ... One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
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In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were, - first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.
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Eh bien, continuons...
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
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My shows are not narratives.
