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 had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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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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The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
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You write about what you know.
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I'm really fortunate that I type 120 words a minute.
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I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
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I use the 'Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow' Palette every day. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the 'Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow' Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don't use anything else but 'Urban Decay Perversion' Mascara.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
