Brion James Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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We shred every day.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I got through college.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.
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We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.
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I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
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Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.
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You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.
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You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
