Brian Selznick Quotes
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
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We all had weird, odd jobs, and living in L.A., struggling to be a musician is tough sometimes, and you just want to give up. But you gotta stick to it.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.
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There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.
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For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.
