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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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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I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
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After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.
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Whether naïve on my part or not, it seemed worth taking the time to try to convince others that their lives possessed beauty and meaning worth preserving and honoring.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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Listening to people keeps them entertained.
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Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
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I went to college when I was 27, and somehow, between high school and college, I became obsessed with getting A's. I can tell you exactly how many non-A's I had, and tell you honestly that I cried every time!
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
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Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."
