Marcus Brigstocke Quotes
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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I know I look super young.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
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After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.
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Being insecure – I'm a master, a virtuoso – they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.
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When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
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Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.
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I think the one film that I could watch over and over and over again - and I have - is 'Man on Fire.'
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.
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The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.
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This is like winning an Oscar!… As if I would know! Speaking of acting, one of my movies was called True Lies. And that’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
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I don't like David Blaine, he is the ultimate git wizard.
