Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I can only control what I can control.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I never intended to become a commercial filmmaker in the first place. What I do requires time and experimentation. Commercial work is often not the best way to get the most innovative work, because it's about money and marketing. Although advertising is now embracing non-commercial people.
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Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.
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I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
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Most people thought we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.
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Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.
