J. Paul Getty Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
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In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.
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Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
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My books are easy to read. No folderol.
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
