Brian Morton Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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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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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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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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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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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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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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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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The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
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Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we’re basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.
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Coincidence. But the eagerness to find meaning in such coincidences is love.
