Jake LaMotta Quotes
I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I am a big music nerd.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.
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All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
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For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
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I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
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I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.
