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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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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I wrote a few unsuccessful screenplays before I wrote 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' I wrote them as television plays that never got made. I'm glad I wrote them - I think it was a good experience.
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I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films.
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Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
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I remember the moment that I realized that I was going to get the opportunity to be in my dream role, and I said, 'I just don't think life gets any better!' You have to take that moment and expand it for as long as possible because it's such a cool feeling.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
