Willem de Kooning Quotes
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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What you are comes to you.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.
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If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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I used to work with mentally disabled people when I was 18 or 19, changing diapers and catheters. I was working, like, 16 hour night shifts, having to distribute meds and go capture people who would break out of the house. Sometimes they'd have seizures, and we'd have to rush them to the hospital. That was an interesting time, very humbling.
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I have to change to stay the same.
