Brie Larson (Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers) Quotes
More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I would like to direct.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.
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Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
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I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'
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When I'm singing or on stage, I become complete all of a sudden. I'm whole. I don't think I've really had that in so many other things in my life.
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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.
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More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.
