Sanford I. Weill Quotes
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
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I heard there was a debate about fighting teammates, and if a fight should happen because the fans or promoter wants it, I will fight a teammate, but family is ridiculous.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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You need to know what is worth letting go. And this generally comes with time and patience.
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I think we are a product of all our experiences.
