Brian Helgeland Quotes
It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
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I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.
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I can't believe a guy that handsome wouldn't have some impact.
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I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
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It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
