Bryan Callen Quotes
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
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The more people who game, the better for everyone.
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An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
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You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do. And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want. You have to be malleable to what's going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.
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The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.
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Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.
