Bryan Kest Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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Prince and I happen to think alike.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Just because we can think does not mean we are separate from everything.
