Brian Christian Quotes
I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music.Brian Christian
Quotes to Explore
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
Imelda May -
I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.
Hansika Motwani -
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Warren Farrell -
To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
Ioan Gruffudd -
We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
Ma Jun -
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Orlando Bloom
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
Malin Akerman -
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
Adam Cohen -
I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
Jack Ma -
Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
Om Puri -
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster -
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
Kate Winslet -
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush -
I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
Gary Ackerman -
We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.
Patrick Lencioni -
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
Maggie Stiefvater -
The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers.
Amanda Coplin -
I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.
Arthur Fry -
I think it's so hypocritical to be so anti-nudity in films, and be so pro-violence. I'd rather see two people making love, than somebody being done in. Or being shot and getting their head blown off.
Eva Mendes -
I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader... This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand as much from the player. Most people know this; at the end of the day you can be too beat to read but not yet too beat to watch television or listen to music.
Brian Christian