Brannon Braga Quotes
You've got your 'X-Files' and now 'Lost,' which is arguably science fiction, though one could say it's something else.
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
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I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?
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In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.
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Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.
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The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
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It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
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It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.
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When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now.
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He had called girls to him before. There was nothing so easy whether you were walking into a classroom, a club, or down the street. All you had to do was send out the right signals, give her the right look, turn your body the right way, and never for a moment let it cross your mind that she might not be interested.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
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Without Twin Peaks, there would have been no Northern Exposure, Picket Fences, X-Files or 'Alias. It started the movement of off-center television.
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I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.
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You've got your 'X-Files' and now 'Lost,' which is arguably science fiction, though one could say it's something else.
