Brian Fallon Quotes
On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.
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On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
