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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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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A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.
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Just believe in the future and direction of the capability that ARM has. Go deep and build a better future, both for the company and for its contribution to the industry. That's what I want ARM to do: invest more the future.
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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.
