Berkeley Breathed Quotes
Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
Quotes to Explore
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
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I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.
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Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
