Brian Francis Johnson Quotes
Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.
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Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
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I think it's possible to a certain extent to make those comparisons. The problem is the detail with which the comparison can be made. Of course, the first place to make such a comparison would be to ask for a testimony from different people and have people report on what they experience.
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I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
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Being called a dance photographer makes me bristle. You might say that dance is my landscape. The root of my interest is movement or, rather, how movement can be interpreted photographically, and dance provides a perfect opportunity for this.
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I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.
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In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
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Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.
