Brian Lindstrom Quotes
With a living person you're always burdened with this idea of fair representation, treading this fine line between honoring the person, and yet you really look at the word "honor," it implies that you then have to address struggle and hardship and failure, and all these things that it means to be human, that you show the fullness of their life. If the person's living, they are able to interject.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
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Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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With a living person you're always burdened with this idea of fair representation, treading this fine line between honoring the person, and yet you really look at the word "honor," it implies that you then have to address struggle and hardship and failure, and all these things that it means to be human, that you show the fullness of their life. If the person's living, they are able to interject.
