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.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Day
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• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Think

• During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Remember
  • Fun
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• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Myself
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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.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Know
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• My career is an open book, but my life is not.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Book
  • Career

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• 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.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Great
  • Men
  • Fame

• Actually I dance really well on the floor.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Dance
  • Really
  • Well

• Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Bad
  • Person
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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.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Hand

• Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?

  

  Fat Joe
  • Why
  • Business
  • Hair

• If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Laughter

• When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

  

  Sheena Easton

• The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • People
  • World
  • America

• I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

  

  Marianne Wiggins
  • Life
  • Why
  • Remember

• The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Power
  • Protection

• I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.

  

  Brian Friel
  • Writing
  • Why