Brian Lumley Quotes
The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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No two wars are identical.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
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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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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
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To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.
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Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.
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The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
