Federico Fellini Quotes
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
