V. S. Naipaul Quotes
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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I'm a supporter of female entrepreneurs. I don't feel like a victim, and I try to not think of myself as one.
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To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.
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I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
