Kevin Brockmeier Quotes
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.
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I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
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I'm a perfectionist about being on time.
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I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
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Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.
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Brittany can hardly claim the attention of the tourist as a superlatively beautiful country. The way in which trees are clipped and tortured out of shape disfigures the sylvan landscape; and of mountain scenery, there is none.
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I was asked to do 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here,' and I said: 'No thank you.'
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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I'm a Taylor Swift fan, definitely.
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All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
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What Is, is, what Was, was, but what is To Be, may be otherwise.
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To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit, which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.
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Realization is experienced by making the Lord the motive of all actions.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.
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We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.
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Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
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I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page.
