Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes
I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
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You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.
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Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.
