Gerald Brooks Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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'…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
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More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
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No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
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I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
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It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.
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An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
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The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
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To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
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Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.
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The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.
