Brian Selznick Quotes
But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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New York is my home.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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If there's anything consistent about my work, it's not flat.
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With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
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After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.
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Starting from scratch and seeing the smile on a client's face when it all comes together in the end - it's a lovely feeling.
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But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?
