Brie Larson (Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers) Quotes
I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.
