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I’m amazed at how my children grow up. And I’m happy when I have an opportunity to talk to them and advise them something.

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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
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I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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Change is hard, I should know. I should know.
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Humans were genetically inclined to be intolerant of difference. They could overcome the inclination, but it was a reality of the Human conflict that they often did not.
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'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
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GRUBSTREET - The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.
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I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.
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Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.
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The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
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I’m amazed at how my children grow up. And I’m happy when I have an opportunity to talk to them and advise them something.