Owen Wister Quotes
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Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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You're only as good as your last dish.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.
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I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like it was a video game or something. And then there's ads where, like, you know, the X to, like, close the ad screen is so kind of small that you can't find it and you have to actually go looking for it. And so I spend all my energy - instead of, like, absorbing what the advertiser wants to communicate to me, I spend my energy trying to figure out how to defeat the ad.
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When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
