Kevin Brownlow Quotes
To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.
Quotes to Explore
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.
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The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.
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When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
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It is always impossible-he was conscious again with that strange clarity of mind-for a man to face his own death honestly. A man always continues to believe to the last moment of his life that something will intervene to save him.
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The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
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I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'
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It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'
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I think I was aware when I started doing stand-up, especially on my own, that, yeah, I'm getting up on stage, and I'm a woman, and I dress in a sort of typically feminine fashion.
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I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.
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The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.
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I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.
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When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.
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When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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We have had conversations with Lucasfilm, and we continue to have them. I think it would be wonderful to extend that brand onto our programming.
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That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.
