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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Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
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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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You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.
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Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.
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And I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss.
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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.
