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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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
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A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.
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Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.
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One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
