Brian Houston Quotes
What frames the tone of your life? How often do you stretch beyond your comfort zone to reach out to people whom you are in disagreement with? The ability to enjoy a bug, spacious, openhearted life is directly proportional to your ability to love everyone, especially those who are different from you.
Quotes to Explore
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
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Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
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Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
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God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good.
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When I look back at my career and my life and how much I have learnt, I feel blessed with what I have. I have stopped fighting with myself.
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Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.
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What frames the tone of your life? How often do you stretch beyond your comfort zone to reach out to people whom you are in disagreement with? The ability to enjoy a bug, spacious, openhearted life is directly proportional to your ability to love everyone, especially those who are different from you.
