Euzhan Palcy Quotes
There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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The heart lies to itself because it must.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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Whether or not someone sexualizes you for wearing an outfit, that's their problem and not yours.
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There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.
