Brian J. Smith Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.
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I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.
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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
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Sex is energy.
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I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
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Art is my life and my life is art.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
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Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.' 'Where's the beef?' 'A diamond is forever.' 'Think different.' You'd be hard pressed to find a writer's craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.
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Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.
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That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
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My favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald.
