Jimmy Iovine Quotes
The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
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When it came to country, I loved the stories.
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I think it's a fascinating thing to see how lonely people are in this world and what they're looking for. It's a universal concept. So, it's something that interests me and I'll probably revisit it if I get the chance to do the child soldier film because I think it's one of the most important scripts I've written. It's just too dark to do as a film right now. I need to do something a bit different.
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Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
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The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
