Brian Wilson Quotes
I think because I felt so sad I had to bring out my feelings, and try to create music that would make me and all my friends feel better.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I think because I felt so sad I had to bring out my feelings, and try to create music that would make me and all my friends feel better.
