Brian J. White Quotes
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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When I'm traveling, I always look for a dance studio. It's a great workout and a wonderful way to meet new friends in the community.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.
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I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!
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My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.
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I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so many times. I felt I had nothing to do. I used to irritate the cameramen.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
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What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.
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Here is one of the best bits of advice every given about the fine art of human relationships. 'If there is any one secret of success,' says Henry Ford, 'it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.'
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I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.
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There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.
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I've lived in Forest Hill Village, Riverdale, Summerhill, The Annex and Cabbagetown. Finding the right neighbourhood fit in Toronto is only slightly less tricky than finding the right partner to share it with.
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I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.
