Brion James Quotes
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.
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How far you are I just don't know The distance I'm willing to go I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky Hoping for some kind of sign
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My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.
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Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you're talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That's something I didn't really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you're serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.
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Work begets work.
