Matt Groening Quotes
'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
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I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.
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Many friends of mine told me that normally only guys like a kung fu movie and the girls would be turned off - they want to see a love story. But Ip Man is a family man, so the women see this and go: 'I want my husband to be like this man. He'll be a scholar, he'll be fighting, he'll care for the family.' So we had a bigger audience.
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Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.
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'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.
