Pat Brown Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.
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I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.
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I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
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Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
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We assume people we know can't be serial killers.
