Brian Masters Quotes
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.
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There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.
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I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.
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I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
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Check-ins are cool, but kind of a pain.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.
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Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
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I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.
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At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.
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I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.
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I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
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You know you have that zealousness of the young person that feels like you can go out and do it all. You know you save the world, save your gente, save women and before you know it if you try to do that you will burn out very quickly. My feeling is that I always think that and my advice to young people regardless of what times in these decades we've been living in there's always work to be done. The point is what can you do personally that you can live with so that you can get up the next morning and have the strength to start it all over again.
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You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
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You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
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Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.
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I was the forlorn seeker after a relationship which was always beyond my reach.
