James Mattis Quotes
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
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I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.
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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.
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Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. Before the invention of navigational instruments, a beautiful lady was carved on the prow of the boat to help sailors cross the ocean; and architects, grappling with the intangibles of design, select a guru whose work gives them personal help in areas where there are few rules to follow. The guru, as architectural father-figure, is subject to intense hate and love; either way, the relationship is personal, and necessarily one-to-one.
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No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.
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For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.
