Brie Larson (Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers) Quotes
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Women drive box office.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
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I was bored at college, so I put $10 in a jukebox in this place where people played ping-pong and pool. I put in $10 of 'Jingle Bell Rock,' and this was back in the '90s, so it played 'Jingle Bell Rock,' like, 40 times in a row. It was just really fun to watch because after the fourth time, people were just losing-their-minds angry.
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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
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The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
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Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.
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Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.
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I want to get better and better at my craft.
