Brian Helgeland Quotes
I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents.
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The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.
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Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.
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I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.
