Brian Koppelman Quotes
Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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I have a pig valve.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Parvesh Cheena is a real treat for the ladies.
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Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being
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I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make good films.
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Let's not look at working hard as a negative; let's look at it as an uplifting opportunity for us to be better.
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When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.
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The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.
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We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
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My heart just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
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I keep up with James Kochalka's online strip, and if I see a link somewhere or someone tells me about something, I'll look at it, but I don't usually keep up with any sites other than the 'American Elf.' I always have this feeling that there's not enough space in the screen, like everything's always getting cut off.
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What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
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Wikipedia is like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.
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There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day. And it doesn't matter if their dog got run over by a car that day, or they won the Irish sweepstakes. I'm not one of those writers.
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It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.
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A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.
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Physical development fosters learning.
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Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
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Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.
