Jon Brion Quotes
Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
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Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
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Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
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I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.
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If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'll just put on a pair of sunnies, and that's enough.
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Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
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What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
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I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.
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There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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They had clearly feared turn-of-the-century irrationality-religious overzealousness on one side, destructive hedonism on the other, with both heated by ideological intolerance and corporate greed.
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The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going to be beaten up by me and these kids, unborn, not knowing they were going to be born into the family of a child-beater just because I was. So it really did have a great effect on me.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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If you cast the right actor, it not only compliments your work, it elevates your work.
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I'm not saying that I'm on some crusade to change people's minds. I'm just doing what I do. I'm a comedian, I'm trying to be funny... I think when they see a comedy show with an Iranian and an Egyptian and two Palestinians, I think they go, 'Oh wow, these guys are just like us.'
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Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
