Brian Urquhart Quotes
It was predictable he would not turn out terribly well as the head of a very very large and complicated and rich country...
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
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I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.
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My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
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The ability to immediately deduct the costs of capital investments will help employers improve worker productivity and output - which grows Main Street jobs. And with these savings, businesses across the country will have more freedom to grow, hire new workers, and increase wages.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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It was predictable he would not turn out terribly well as the head of a very very large and complicated and rich country...
