Brian Morton Quotes
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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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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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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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There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.
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New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
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I think a lot of people are doing content well today. A lot of companies are coming into the space. It is growing faster than anything other than mobile. You can see why. You look at young people and you can see how many are consuming content on their phones.
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Coincidence. But the eagerness to find meaning in such coincidences is love.
