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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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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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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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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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 have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp. And he wrote my next movie, which was 'Made.'
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And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
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From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've played it in arenas that are for all people. I've pretty much stuck to that model my whole career.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
