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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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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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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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
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When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
