Brian Grazer Quotes

Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.

Brian Grazer

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BeautifulArchitectureMindMeIdeas

In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad guy is really cool." It's fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly - one piece of advice I'll give to people is your mom is always right.

Melissa Ordway

LifeFunPeopleCoolMomAdvice

Most people fill their schedules with work, and leisure only happens when there's time left over. But it's impossible to live a rich and full life without doing things that give you joy. Forget about productivity once in a while and give yourself permission to goof off.

Amy Morin

LifeWorkLiveTimeYourselfJoy

Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.

Sia

GoodJobMeSongSuitsWill

You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better.

Mike Lee

GovernmentPeopleInfluenceBetter

The expectations of people and society on Samsung have grown stricter and bigger.

Jay Y. Lee

PeopleSocietyExpectationsBigger

What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.

Chris Hadfield

MusicCultureThinkDrivingYouNew

I can't keep secrets for crap.

Brett Eldredge

GirlMomThinkSexyYouWatching

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

Bobby Darin

ClubFloorSinkingHoles

Coming from the theatre, I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns, and I get to be a princess or someone from the 1920s, or I get to wear showgirl costumes. I'm used to wearing a wardrobe that changes how I feel. It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often, the clothing can reveal so much about a character.

Sutton Foster

CharacterTheatreFeelSomeone1920s

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

Sherrod Brown

GovernmentCorruptionPartyBig

Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We're very alike; it's not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it's just that he was born 10 years later... he's a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.

Shakira

DayHappyMeBornHealthyNothing

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Richard Russo

MindStoryThinkShortSomething

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