James Toback Quotes
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
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All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.
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I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?
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It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
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Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."
