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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I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
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I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'
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I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.
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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.
