Brian Friel Quotes
I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
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They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.
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I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
