Ernest Hemingway Quotes
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
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Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing that. I don't ever want to give up acting.
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.
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I want to spread the message in the U.S. that there are good philanthropists in China, and not all are crazy spenders on luxury goods.
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I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
