Brian Koppelman Quotes

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

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• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

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• I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.

  

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• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

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• I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

  

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• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an overlapping of membership all along the line.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Know
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• I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

  

  Faith Prince
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• It's always about the music, never about anything else.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• If any ask me what a free Government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'

  

  Jim Broadbent
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• You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

  

  Ernest Thompson Seton
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• I've sort of grown into my cuteness.

  

  Julia Roberts
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• Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.

  

  Alan Garner
  • World
  • Great
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• For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

  

  Brian Koppelman
  • Belief
  • Artists
  • Delusion