Helio Castroneves (Hélio Castro-Neves) Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
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Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
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A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.
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Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.
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I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
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Paul Dana, you're in our hearts. You're family.
