Bernie Brillstein Quotes
In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.
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I'm very self-critical.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.
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I will say, I quite enjoyed 'SG-1'. I'm a very big fan of 'SG-1'. I especially love Ben Browder. I thought he did fantastic work in that.
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I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.
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I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
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The data - on issues and on Trump himself - keep pointing back to 'one-in-four' as the true size of Trump's base. It is around one in four who like the tweeting, like the insults, the things other people say are mean or unproductive behavior.
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The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.
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I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
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I am a plumber. Just a plumber.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
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In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.
