Brian Helgeland Quotes
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
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Your dressing area should be your private space.
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With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
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I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.
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'Kung Fu' was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I should do a movie right away, because I think when you leave a television series, it's important that you establish the fact that you're a movie actor really quickly, or you might never get that chance.
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Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.
