Brian L. Roberts Quotes
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.
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Americans give you the violence, Europeans give you the sex. I think people have been saying that since the 70s. And I think it's kind of pathetic that Americans are still stuck - on the shock value of violence, when sex is such a natural thing for everybody.
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I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.
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New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
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It's a huge mistake not to embrace social media. We need to stay in touch and stay relevant to young people.
