Brett Gelman Quotes
Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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Trends don't interest me.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.
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I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
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You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
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Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
