Brian Lumley Quotes
But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
Quotes to Explore
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
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Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
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I do not want to belittle or be indifferent to the insults to our prophet (pbuh). I denounce insulting our prophet and announce that my heart is filled with his love. Yet, I refuse that his position should be employed for ignoble political gains. However, I protest being used as a tool.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
