Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes
'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.
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I get depressed at airports.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.
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'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.
