D. B. Sweeney Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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You are just your intelligence.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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My own agenda is going to be followed, and that agenda is to maintain very good relations with the international community, and Lebanon has to fulfill its commitments.
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You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
