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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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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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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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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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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Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.
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A story is how we construct our experiences.
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We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"
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'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.
