Bryan White Quotes
I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
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If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
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There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a band. You like the band, you like the band.
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The attention is to be kept pure.
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Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.
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I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.
