Brian Koppelman Quotes
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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Living without hate for people is almost impossible.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
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Yes, we need a force to continue to train, assist, advise the Iraqi army.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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When I directed my first short – 'American Virgin' – I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.
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I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
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I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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Hollywood is a land of self-invention.
