George Clooney Quotes
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.
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To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
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I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.
