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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At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve the deployment of public funds.
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I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
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Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
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Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.
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Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.
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The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.
