Liz Brixius famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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People don't tune in to watch network executives' decisions. They don't tune in to watch writers' decisions. They tune in to watch people that they like.
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Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.
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There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.
-- Liz Brixius
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.
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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
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You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.
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I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
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