Brian Grazer Quotes
Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
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I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.
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I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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I only cook when I'm in love.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.
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Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.
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Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
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Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.
