Brian Fallon Quotes
I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair of chainsaw operator's earmuffs.
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My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
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The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.
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For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.
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I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.
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I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.
