Brian Wong Quotes
Going to class every day with kids several years older than me pushed me not just socially but mentally. I got to be very comfortable with the feeling of “What the hell is going on here?” because the answer was always “Whatever it is, it’s pretty awesome, because I’m now learning things I didn’t even know existed.” I became a member of the Fake It Till You Make It club, which is a Cheat in and of itself.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
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My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
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Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
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Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.
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It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.
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Going to class every day with kids several years older than me pushed me not just socially but mentally. I got to be very comfortable with the feeling of “What the hell is going on here?” because the answer was always “Whatever it is, it’s pretty awesome, because I’m now learning things I didn’t even know existed.” I became a member of the Fake It Till You Make It club, which is a Cheat in and of itself.
