Ewen Bremner Quotes
I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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I was always really into the music rather than the scene.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.
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I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.
