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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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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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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Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
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If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.
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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
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For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
