David Brewster Quotes
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.
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Of course there are peace-loving Muslims.
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Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.
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Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
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I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.
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In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
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We in Ghana, are committed to the building of an industrialized socialist society. We cannot afford to sit still and be mere passive onlookers. We must ourselves take part in the pursuit of scientific and technological research as a means of providing the basis for our socialist society, Socialism without science is void. …
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
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Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
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It's worth exploring if it offers any potential at all to protect emergency responders or industrial workers. Without doing things like this, you'll never know where it could go.
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Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.
