Bran Ferren Quotes
The problem with television isn't the number of horizontal scanning lines. It's the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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We're all performing for someone.
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I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
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I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
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A lot of times, professional athletes say, 'I'm not a role model; I'm an athlete.' I don't mind being a role model because I know what I've done in order to make it to where I am right now. It's a lot of hard work; it's a tremendous amount of hard work. But in order to be make it to a certain level, everybody knows it's going to take time.
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Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.
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The problem with television isn't the number of horizontal scanning lines. It's the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors.
