Brett Gelman Quotes

All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.

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• The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Past
  • Never

• I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fans

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• I am pretty self-indulgent.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Self-Indulgent

• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Horse
  • Lady

• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Really
  • Were
  • Blur

• Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Pressure
  • Own
  • Expectations

• Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Challenge

• I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Fall
  • Expect

• Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Language

• If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Economic
  • Welcome

• Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Voice
  • Instruments

• I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • True
  • Happy

• The conclusion is now inescapable that Iraq is in material breach of Resolution 1441, ... But, I also say this: That war is not inevitable.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Conclusion
  • Iraq

• Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Believe
  • Control
  • Sea

• I'm not going to judge what I do.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Judge
  • Going To

• Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • True
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Different
  • Character
  • Film

• At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step.” This may be because he was ordered to speak circumspectly. According to science writer Nigel Calder, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director of the CERN lab, told a German newspaper that “I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.

  

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Directors

• The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Worth
  • Remembering
  • Own Right

• All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Film
  • Directors