Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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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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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Sleep is over-rated. When you're creating, travelling, and having the best time of your life the last thing on your mind is sleep.
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DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.
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I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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There's a hidden history. You see, Malcolm X and [Alex ] Haley collaborated to produce a magnificent narrative about the life of Malcolm X, but the two men had very different motives in coming together.
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Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
