Brian Grazer Quotes
I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I like running into that in life. I like extreme points of view, a level of commitment - and I certainly love mastery.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.
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Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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I am a collector of jewels, old jewels.
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When I have a big enough handbag to carry a little pair of booties with, I always do - those pointy Christian Louboutin heels are just no fun to walk around in.
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I like running into that in life. I like extreme points of view, a level of commitment - and I certainly love mastery.
