Quintilian Quotes
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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No two wars are identical.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
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The world is healed one loving thought at a time.
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I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
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I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.
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In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.'
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
