Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.
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I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
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For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
