Norman Braman Quotes
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
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I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.
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If you're going to do something, you do it all the way.
