Marie Brennan Quotes
I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you start figuring out where you could be doing better. But as far back as I can trace, I always wrote clear, grammatical prose.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
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Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
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I'd get to a point with my colleagues when I couldn't explain any further, because it came down to 'To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.'.
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I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.
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I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you start figuring out where you could be doing better. But as far back as I can trace, I always wrote clear, grammatical prose.
