Brian J. Smith Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I'm very self-critical.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.
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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
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There is no success you can celebrate more than the success of a brother.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Those who use this countries great tradition of freedom of speech should not seek to deny that same freedom to others, especially to those who, like Mr Powell, spent their war years in distinguished service in the Forces.
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I think David Hewlett is a comedic genius. I think he's great.
