Brian Morton Quotes
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
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The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?
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There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
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If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
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Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.
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It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.
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Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
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Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.
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Be realistic! Demand the impossible!
