Brian Moore Quotes
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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I really do hope 'The Hate U Give' provides mirrors for readers who don't often get them in books. I've had so many young black girls tell me just how thrilled they are to see someone who looks like them on the cover. I hope that they see themselves in the pages as well.
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I feel like, sometimes, plus-size women get scared to show skin... but summer is the time that we can enjoy doing that.
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It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.
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Personality for me is the strongest statement.
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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
