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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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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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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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
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I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.
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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.
