Adrien Brody Quotes
Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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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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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.
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You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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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 date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.
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You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
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When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.
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I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways and the look and shapes they could be, and I felt it was missing for me in American film. I didn't see anybody I was watching in movies that felt like me. I felt rather tortured and lonely about it.
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You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.
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Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
