Brion James Quotes
My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
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People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
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Focus equals feeling.
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If two actors can communicate well during a scene, it works and makes for good chemistry.
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When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.
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My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
