Steve Jobs Quotes
Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Quotes to Explore
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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My kids learned to be independent.
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I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.
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Eat my shorts!
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I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.
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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
