Brian Selznick Quotes

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

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• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

  

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

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• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

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• I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

  

  Dan Farmer
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• It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

  

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• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

  

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• I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.

  

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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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• The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.

  

  Laura Moser
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• Ultimately love is everything.

  

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• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

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• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

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• It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

  

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• As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.

  

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• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

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• The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
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• If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

  

  John Mellencamp

• I know that I'm here because of the grace of God. But I also know that I've been given this second chance for a specific reason, and that is to bring love to the world again through the voice of my music, and I'm so honored to be able to do it. I'm so blessed that God has chosen me to do that.

  

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• I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

  

  Brian Selznick
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  • Art