Arthur Brisbane Quotes
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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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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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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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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That's the only way you can stop a guy like Cam Newton. Hit him. He's unstoppable, so whenever he does try to run like a running back, you got to punish him.
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The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a free country, so this is a tough problem to solve, but I'd love to see an election season with zero political ads, and all voters had to decide based on watching four national debates over the two months leading to election day.
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I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.
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We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.
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By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.
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When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.
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You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
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A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
