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A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
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It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
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You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
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Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.
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I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
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My parents have tried not to intrude. They kind of stayed apart from my gymnastics but are very supportive, and that's very helpful as a gymnast to not have your parents say, 'Did you do this today?' and just be very on top of you.
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Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
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A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
