Brett Morgen Quotes
When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.
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These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.
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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
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I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.
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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.
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No one teaches mindfulness better than Thich Nhat Hanh.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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Wer keine Blume mehr liebt, dem ist alle Liebe und Gottesfurcht verloren.
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The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.
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That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today.
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When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised.
