Brian J. Smith Quotes

Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.

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• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • New York

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Animal

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • You
  • Wear
  • Wearing

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • You
  • Write
  • Original

• I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Movie
  • Matter
  • Genre

• My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Respect
  • Romance
  • Ghetto

• I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Great
  • Moments

• All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Music
  • Mean
  • Rock

• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

• When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.

  

  Emma Roberts

• I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Working

• It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • World
  • Mind

• As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • Great
  • Men
  • Mind

• Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.

  

  Brian J. Smith
  • Mind
  • Daily