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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You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.
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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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Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.
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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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I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.
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I'll take my chances... I forgot how nice romance is...I haven't been there for the longest time...
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When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.
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There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.
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Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.
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A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
