Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.
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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop
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A lot of the time I get inspired by stuff I overhear on the subway, which is real-life film I suppose… so it’s like dialogue or interactions that catch you off-guard, that are very different from your own.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.
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What you put out is already on its way back to you.
