Arthur Brisbane Quotes
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
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My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.
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A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
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I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
