Baron Vaughn Quotes
I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
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Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for.
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Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.
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When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.
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I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
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Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.
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Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
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Emma Stone, I think, always looks beautiful.
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Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.
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I dream of democratizing the fashion industry by giving everyone access to feeling their most beautiful and powerful every day and, at the same time, using technology to modernize how we get dressed.
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I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.
