Brian Harvey Quotes
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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I grew up with the 'Star Wars' movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
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Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.
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Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.
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If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
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I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.
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My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.
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After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
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I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'
