Brian Harvey Quotes

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Dying
  • Talking

• We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • You
  • Journalism

• I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • World
  • Children
  • Lost

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

  

  Felix Feneon
  • Never
  • Eternity
  • Studying

• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Way

• When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Career

• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Something
  • Abundance
  • Tune

• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Before
  • Luxury
  • Printing

• You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • Nature
  • Man

• Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Human

• I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • You
  • Like
  • Imagine

• Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Trust
  • Chance
  • Results

• 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Favorite

• My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Time
  • Single

• I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist, that I wouldn't just write full time. It's such a part of my life, and in some ways, it's a very unromantic part of my life. It's almost, to me, like breathing. I don't think about whether I like it or not.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Life
  • Time
  • Teacher

• It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce...

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Couple
  • Songs
  • Credit

• At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • American
  • Age
  • Theatre

• Surfing - I have to go surfing.

  

  Bryan Volpenhein
  • Surfing

• There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Time
  • Night
  • Hand

• I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

  

  Brian Harvey