Brian Lamb Quotes
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.
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On the day that you were bornThe angels got togetherAnd decided to create a dream come trueSo they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of goldAnd starlight in your eyes of blue.
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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You knowTaken out of context I mustSeem so strange.
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When we two partedIn silence and tears,Half brokenhearted,To sever for years.
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I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
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I want to be a dog, but I'm a pussycat.
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A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
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We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
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Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.
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It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.
