Brian Herbert Quotes
My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.
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I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'
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Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
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I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.
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My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
