Brian Morton Quotes
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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I really hate to write.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.
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Coincidence. But the eagerness to find meaning in such coincidences is love.
