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.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Mom
  • Hard
  • Accent

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• 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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • Mountain
  • Battle

• I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • People
  • Want
  • Fools

• I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guy
  • Never
  • Punk

• 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.

  

  Abba Eban
  • War
  • History
  • Peace

• 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.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• 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.

  

  J. Lee Thompson
  • Camera
  • Filmmaking
  • Digital

• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• 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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Free
  • Comfortable

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Singing

• You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• Nothing wrong with making money.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Nothing
  • Making Money

• Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • Comedies

• 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.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • High
  • Simple
  • Mountain

• I've raised my daughter with no television.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Daughter
  • Television
  • Raised

• 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.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Health
  • Project

• At the end of the day, I don't think I am going to be judged by what happened in the 90's and 2000's, at the end of the day my career will be judged from beginning to end and everything in between.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Ends
  • Careers
  • Happened

• Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

  

  George Will
  • Reality
  • Attitude
  • Perception

• My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Dad

• The STEM fields play an increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, but women are still underrepresented in most STEM sectors.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Important
  • Women

• I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Fun
  • Star
  • Grew

• 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.

  

  Marie Brennan