Brian Wilson Quotes
I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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I'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative.
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All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.
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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
