Brian Regan Quotes
How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make a little lame segue. "Hey, that's a big lotto jackpot! Speaking of lotto, there was a lot o' crime in the city today."
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
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I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.
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I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom.
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If you feel so lonely you could cry, take the focus off yourself. Think of how much God loves you, and find another person whom you can serve today.
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The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.
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The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.
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How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make a little lame segue. "Hey, that's a big lotto jackpot! Speaking of lotto, there was a lot o' crime in the city today."
