Douglas Leone Quotes
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another.
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The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
