H. W. Brands Quotes
Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look; that women have to be so skinny to look good; that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.
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Strength is but one aspect of power.
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Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.
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I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.
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I think by the next generation either we'll have a lot of idiots who are just completely immersed in media and corporatized information, or we'll have people who enjoy media and corporatized information, but are more interconnected with human beings around the world ... And who share common goals and are willing to accept that they are a global citizen. I think the latter is more the direction.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
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There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.
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It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.
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Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
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There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.
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My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.
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Happy? It was a word she had been fond of using when she was young. But it meant one thing at eighteen, another at thirty-two. Its only test was contrast with unhappiness.
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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
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If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
