Newell Dwight Hillis Quotes
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.
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Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full
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I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.
