Brian Lumley Quotes
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
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It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.
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I have a rude thought every three seconds!
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Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.
