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).
Edmund White -
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.
Callie Khouri -
I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
Rachel Weisz -
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
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.
Dakota Fanning -
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.
Felicity Kendal
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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.
Lady Bird Johnson -
I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
Gary David Goldberg -
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.
Taya Kyle -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus -
I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
Karen Duffy
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A hair divides what is false and true.
Omar Khayyam -
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
Eddie Izzard -
Sex is energy.
Beatrice Wood -
I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
Laura Esquivel -
Art is my life and my life is art.
Yoko Ono -
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard
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Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
Hannah Arendt -
That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
Caitlyn Jenner -
On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.
Bojana Novakovic -
'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.
Alex Garland -
My favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald.
Brian J. Smith