Brian Christian Quotes
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
Quotes to Explore
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
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“The sociological imagination refers to the ability of some to learn—often with good luck or coaching or perhaps with formal schooling—to realize that, just as often, one’s personal troubles are in fact public issues.”
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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I keep like simple thing in my head, so obviously is working. Then it's luck. To be honest, look at set point. I hit one of the worst drop shots I ever hit and he hit a frame It's pure luck, you know, to haven't drop a set. So you need to have it sometime, and I hope I will have more.
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I like a man with some extra padding.
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To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
