Brian Selznick Quotes
I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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My wife needs her freedom just like me.
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La façon de donner vaut mieux que ce qu'on donne.
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A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.
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I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.
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I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.
