Steve Jobs Quotes
Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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The problems we face aren't Democratic problems or Republican problems. These are Maryland's problems.
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Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.
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You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
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Is that a real country?
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
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I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.
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Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.
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Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
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Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
