Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes
Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.
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I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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I'm obsessed with socks. I even wear them to bed!
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The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.
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We need to get out of the old language.
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What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.
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In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them.
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I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.
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Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun.
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I find both yoga and pilates awesome at calming my mind and strengthening my body.
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The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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I don't really think I got the full high school experience, only because when I got to high school for the first year, it was grades 9-10. We didn't have older grades. But besides that, it was normal. It was a regular public school. We didn't have much going on. It wasn't too crazy.
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If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it.
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I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.
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I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.
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Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.
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It seems to be that more and more people are asking you to work for nothing on films, and that's unfortunate because you have to make a living. On the other hand, I don't do a better job because I get paid a lot of money. I'm never like, 'I'm not going to work as hard because I'm not getting paid as much.'
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Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.
