Brian Wilson Quotes
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.
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If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
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Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.
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All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids, and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.
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Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.
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Fuck a needle, here's a sword, body pierce with this.
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We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
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It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.
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I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.
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First of all, on a cinematic level, the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
