Brian Grazer Quotes
The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.
Quotes to Explore
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
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Que l'avenir soit un orient au lieu d'être un couchant, c'est la consolation de l'homme.
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I think clearly Europe has a lot to worry about. When I was working at the CIA - and I always worked with a lot of European services - they always were very condescending toward the United States, saying that we are so racist vis-à-vis blacks and other people.
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.
