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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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.
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I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.
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I think telepathy exists, and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.
