Brian Keene Quotes
Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.
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There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.
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When a road is very dark it is hard to see the milestones on it.
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Male makeup is men’s titles, status and paying for dates. Makeup is what both sexes use to bridge the gap between the power they have and the power they’d like to have. Both male and female makeup are compensations for feelings of powerlessness.
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I closed the door like so many times, so many times beforeFelt like a scene on the cutting room floorWhen I let you walk away tonight without a wordI tried to sleep but the clock is stuck on thoughts of you and meA thousand more regrets unravelingIf you were here right now, I swear I'd tell you this
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Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.
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I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.
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My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.
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Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!
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Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.
