Brian Keene Quotes
Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.
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President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.
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I think braids over all allow you to play with your identity a little bit and just have some fun and show off your creativity.
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Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.
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Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.
