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Brian Grazer Quotes

I know just how often people get told 'no' to their brilliant ideas - not just most of the time, but 90 percent of the time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1951

Topics

Time People Ideas Know Brilliant

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

Words Bridge Traffic Musically Out

I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. Every time that I can, I like to kind of mention it, you know, just to keep people sort of knowing exactly what's going on. My French is pretty good, but I'm still African, thank you very much.

Good Time People Roots Celebrate

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

Me Game Think Stock Market Turn Off

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

First Bones Michigan Draft Stanford

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

Ideas Wind You Sometimes Nothing Up

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Stephanie Mills

Myself You Want Project Anything

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

Morning White Sound Because Like

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

Age Teachers Teaching Demand Even

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time I see any work of art really beautifully done, like Michelangelo's 'The David' or that movie 'Lost in Translation' - it inspires me to try and find my own version of that.

Work Beautiful Time Art Me You

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

Myself Man Being Myself Doing Artist

The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He's also made some statements suggesting he doesn't understand or opposes network neutrality.

Phone Understand Him Head Distrust

When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

Michele Bachmann

You Sides Expect Presidency Going

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