Paul Hindemith Quotes
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.
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I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you.
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I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'
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The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
