Bob Lefsetz Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
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Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
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I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
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To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country.
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It’s quite weird . . . I think Dad would think I was nuts.
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Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.
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Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
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Opportunities are abundant, but most people are afraid to do the work.
