Marie Brennan Quotes
I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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Nothing wrong with making money.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.
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A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
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I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.
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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
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It's one thing to lose weight, but it's another thing to eat healthy.
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
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I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.
