Brie Larson (Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers) Quotes

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.

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• It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

  Jack Dee
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  • Important
  • Kids

• Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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  • Kids
  • Today

• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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  • Childhood
  • Afraid

• Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Time
  • Habits
  • Uncertainty

• We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Home

• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Time
  • Me
  • Opportunities

• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Interesting

• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fighting

• The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Know
  • Professional

• Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Perception

• One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
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  • Running
  • Ego

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

  

  Damon Wayans
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  • Kids
  • Growing

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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  • Nothing
  • Building

• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

  Laura Mennell
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  • School
  • Art

• I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Time
  • Women
  • Same

• The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Going

• I believe the Champions League has all that magic because it gathers all the best European teams, and that gives you the feeling of trying to be the best. That's why the Champions League has this special kind of emotion.

  

  Neymar
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Risk
  • Chance
  • Choose

• Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Food
  • Beast

• As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.

  

  Brie Larson
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