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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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
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For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
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I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's scripts. As a writer, my only guiding principle has been to write about things that scare me, write about things that make me feel vulnerable, write about things that will expose my deepest fears, so that's how I write.
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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.
