Craig Brewer Quotes
I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
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I have no problem with television as a genre.
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I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.
