T. Graham Brown (Anthony Graham Brown) Quotes
I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
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I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.
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We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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There is a time for everything and you do different things at different ages.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.
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When I was at Yale, I hung a bit with the Warhol gang. I used some of his superstar types in early movies. I can't say I had any conversations with him, but I did pass him at Max's Kansas City. But I was a big fan of his movies.
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I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.
