Bryan Sykes Quotes
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We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.
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For me, the costume is very important. More the feel of it than the look of it. I take it more from the inside. So if I wear something that's heavy, it will affect my character. Is it very tight, and do I feel almost imprisoned, or is it very comfortable? It's the feeling of the costume that tells me where to go with the character.
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My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
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I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.
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Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.
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I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.
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To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to show to the world that this sort of method is something that western societies can't stand.
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I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
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I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.
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Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
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Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
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It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.
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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
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I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.
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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.
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Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all future human beings gifts of immense value, gifts that, once gone, will be beyond the imagination and skill of humanity to recreate.
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The Nature of the Beast. I have always been curious about other human species...
