Arthur Brisbane Quotes
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
Quotes to Explore
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
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They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
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No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
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I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.
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When surroundings change, we should also change how we make money.
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My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.
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For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.
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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
