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.

Brannon Braga

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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.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Job

• I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?

  

  LL Cool J
  • Thinking
  • Courses

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Today
  • Control

• There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Book
  • Childhood

• African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • News
  • Americans
  • African Americans

• 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.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Character
  • Song
  • motivation

• The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.

  

  Kathleen Rooney
  • Good
  • Novel
  • Poem

• There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Lovely

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• 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.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Small

• When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • America
  • Movies
  • Media

• 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

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Oliver Cowdery
  • Great
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Business
  • Color
  • Red

• 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.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Mind
  • Girl
  • Giving

• You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Soul
  • Care
  • Scary

• It's a wonderful way to get at who someone is through their own love of music and going right at their subconsciousness if you will. You don't play girl singers for girl singers. You know, there's certain things. You do play Ellington for Bobby McFerrin.

  

  Carol Friedman
  • Music
  • Get
  • Someone

• And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Free
  • Riches
  • Don't Want

• We wanted the science fiction to be accessible, that it not be like 'Star Trek,' that it not be technical, and everything has to be explained. We wanted it to be much scarier in the way it's presented.

  

  Brannon Braga
  • Science fiction
  • Explained
  • Star Tre

• A science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Experienced

• You've got your 'X-Files' and now 'Lost,' which is arguably science fiction, though one could say it's something else.

  

  Brannon Braga
  • Science fiction
  • X-Files