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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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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Thus the Koran, in this matter of slavery, is the enemy of mankind ... While the prescriptions by the Prophet regarding the just and humane treatment of slaves contained in the Koran are praiseworthy, there is nothing whatever in Islam that lends support to the abolition of this curse. (p. 228)
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I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.
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I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.
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A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.
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I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.
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The microprocessor is a miracle.
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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.
