Honore de Balzac Quotes
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
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I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
