Adam Leipzig Quotes
At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
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People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
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When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.
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Nothing can stop anyone who has a love and passion about their work.
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At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.
