Brian Morton Quotes
She had a moment of engulfing sadness about this, about the way that even when we’re living through tragedy, the language we reach for, the only language available to us, is secondhand.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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I'm very passionate.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
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And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
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We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.
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We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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In every moment of every day of my life, I get to wake up and work with amazing people and nurture them in the way that I might have nurtured my son or my grandchildren that he might have had.
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She had a moment of engulfing sadness about this, about the way that even when we’re living through tragedy, the language we reach for, the only language available to us, is secondhand.
