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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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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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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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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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 had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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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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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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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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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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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.
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All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
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Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.
