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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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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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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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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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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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
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Benzedrine often helps a case run.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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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.
