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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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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.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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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?
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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.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.
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One thought fills immensity.
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I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.
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Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.
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Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.
