John Mason Brown Quotes
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
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Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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You've got the temperament of a scholar, and you live on your own and write books. You don't have anything to do with civilization. You've been in London a few days and you can't wait to get back home. But how about the people who can't write books - people there's no outlet for in this civilization? What about your new men who don't know what to do?
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
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The astronomer has become, in the highest sense of the term, a physicist; while the physicist is bound to be something of an astronomer.
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So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
