J. Paul Getty Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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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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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
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What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have severe shortages.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
