Brian Christian Quotes
Many of my all-time favorite movies are almost entirely verbal. The entire plot of My Dinner with Andre is “Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory eat dinner.” The entire plot of Before Sunrise is “Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy walk around Vienna.” But the dialogue takes us everywhere, and as Roger Ebert notes, of My Dinner with Andre, these films may be paradoxically among the most visually stimulating in the history of the cinema...
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Professional competitions are overrated.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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I wanna live.
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We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
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People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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We're on a mission to win back both readers and advertisers. We're going to cover the hip-hop scene from a neutral but still hard-hitting point of view.
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My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.
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Luckily, it's one of my favorite movies [Night Of The Living Dead]. I never get tired of watching it.
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What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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Many of my all-time favorite movies are almost entirely verbal. The entire plot of My Dinner with Andre is “Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory eat dinner.” The entire plot of Before Sunrise is “Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy walk around Vienna.” But the dialogue takes us everywhere, and as Roger Ebert notes, of My Dinner with Andre, these films may be paradoxically among the most visually stimulating in the history of the cinema...
