Brian Morton Quotes
You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
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You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.
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When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.
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Art is a guaranty of sanity.
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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.
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If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.
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When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.
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I feel like I'm a character already, as in, like, I love dressing up.
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It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!
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She just wanted to be somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, where people looked and spoke like her and she could stand to eat the food.
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I don't know where actors go after they die, but I know people who help other people have a nice place to go. And I would like to go there if I can.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?
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You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years.
