Brie Larson (Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers) Quotes
'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
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I always say what I think... I'm not brave - I just have no filter.
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'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
