Joel Silver Quotes
When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
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I still believe on some level that at the end, somebody will say, 'You get an A-minus for your life.' And it's not true. It's not true.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!
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This game is crazy. You're up and down, up and down. When you feel good, you want to be there every time for the team.
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When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
