Brian J. Smith Quotes
I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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As a boy, I found myself drawn to Arthurian legends, and then to Celtic mythology, and then further east into the mysticism of Asian religions.
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I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.
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Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - because they sit on their phones all night, thinking about who's 'liked' a photo of them, who hates them, who loves them. They don't know what's real and what's not, editing their lives constantly to fit other people's views.
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Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
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I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.
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I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
