Kevin Brownlow Quotes
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.
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My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.
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I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.
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If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.
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I grew up in New York City, and I've got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.
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Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
