Josh Helman Quotes
X-Men films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.
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I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.
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I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
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One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should." The psychologist Albert Ellis has coined the phrase "Stop shoulding on yourself." When you tell yourself that you should feel or be another way, you are likely to feel bad about yourself. As an alternative, try telling yourself that it is okay to feel or be the way you are, even though you have some idea that you should feel or be different.
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I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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X-Men films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.
