Brian Lara Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
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It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
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I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing to say, but it was fun, and I enjoyed my friends.
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There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.
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I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
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Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
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Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
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One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.
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If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.
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It's later than it's ever been.
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People are always asking me when? when? I say to them 'You tell me.
