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Kevin Brownlow Quotes

It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 2, 1938

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School Revolution Library Said Film

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

Business Interesting Doing Long Up

White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.

People Color White Always Out Been

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

Innovation People Night Thinking New

Around 2005, UFC offered me a chance to fight for them. But, at that moment, I was under contract with NJPW, and I decided to stay in pro-wrestling. It was a good opportunity, but I don't regret my choice.

Shinsuke Nakamura

Good Opportunity Moment Fight Me

I don't know that I think women have to throw out the fairy tale ending. I just think they have to decide what their fairy tale ending is - and not go with the standard one that everyone's told them they're supposed to have.

Women Ending Think Fairy Tale Know

No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.

Positive Me Year Christmas Matter

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

Life Live History Question Divine

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

Country Important Shaping Incredibly

When I fought Benson Henderson for the first time, or Jamie Varner, it was always like, 'Oh man... I'm in here fighting these guys. Do I really belong here?' That's all changed now.

Time Man Fighting Now First Time

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Song Better Person Than Wrote Sells

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

Work Father Mother Parents World

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Science Modern Word Means Hebrew

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