Brian Josephson Quotes
I think telepathy exists, and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I always played to win.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.
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Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.
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I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
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First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain.
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I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.
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I think telepathy exists, and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.
