Brian Helgeland Quotes

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

Brian Helgeland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1961

Topics

FireYouOilWriteOutBring

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

John Gray

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We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.

John Oliver

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Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.

Matthew Perry

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In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

Matthew Weiner

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I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.

Andy Milonakis

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It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

Amber Heard

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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm

ServiceYouEarthRentPayRoom

Really, I'm never much of a goal-setter. Whenever I've tried to make big, solid plans, they don't happen. I'm more into whatever the circumstances are that present themselves, making wise decisions around that.

Rose McIver

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With the House of Marley, over the years we've been trying to establish ourselves not just as a brand but a lifestyle movement. So it's been a challenge to get people to adapt to our new way of thinking. We're all about sustainability, the natural life, the eco life.

Rohan Marley

LifeChallengePeopleBrandThinking

I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans.

Lisa Madigan

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My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

Christopher Meloni

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The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

Clint Smith

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