Eleanor Brown Quotes
We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.
Quotes to Explore
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
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Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
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The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent.
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Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.
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I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.
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For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
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We have a second home that also completely rolled into the back of the lot.
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If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without a common Power to keep them all in awe; we might as well suppose all mankind to do the same; and then there neither would be nor need to be any civil government or commonwealth at all, because there would be Peace without subjection.
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
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Your Philosophy of life shapes you more than anything else
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The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.
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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
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Your teacher can open the door but you must enter yourself.
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I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.
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Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.
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For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
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Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.
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We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.
