Rafael Yglesias Quotes
To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.
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Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
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I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
