Brian Grazer Quotes

#1. I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

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#2. You can't get anything done trying to absorb and neutralize everyone else's criticisms.

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#3. Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.

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#4. I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

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#5. I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if you're branded. I get the trade-off, and I really would like to be more famous for my work, get more credit for my achievements.

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#6. "No" is just a moment in time.

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#7. The awesome love of our invisible God has become both visible and audible in Jesus Christ, the glory of the only Son filled with enduring love.

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#8. I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

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#9. It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.

Rob Sheffield

#10. WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

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#11. You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

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#12. Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.

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#13. I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.

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#14. The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

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#15. Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

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#16. You can't search for the answer to questions that haven't been asked yet. And you can't Google a new idea. The Internet can only tell us what we already know.

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#17. Curiosity - asking questions - isn't just a way of understanding the world. It's a way of changing it.

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#18. My creative is curiosity conversations ... All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.

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#19. When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.

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#20. They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.

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#21. Manners are really the basis for how we treat other people - manners are born out of compassion, empathy, the "golden rule." Manners are, quite simply, making people feel welcome, comfortable, and respected.

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#22. I don't know why anyone does the job without that pressure.

Kristen Stewart

#23. I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'.

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#24. I only make movies that are interesting to me.

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#25. There is evidence that people do want to watch shows back to back - that's why DVR use is so high. When you're able to DVR something, people will watch more than one episode.

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