Brett Morgen Quotes
I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.
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I fear my ignorance.
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I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
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Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
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Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.
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Nothing is irreparable in politics.
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Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
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If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.
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A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.
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I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.
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I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.
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A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
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The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.
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Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
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I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.
