Brian Reitzell Quotes
'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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I am a journalist.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
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Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.
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You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.
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'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.
