Oprah Winfrey Quotes
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
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If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
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For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
