Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I would call myself more spiritual than religious.
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It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
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The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good.
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You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.
