Elaine de Kooning Quotes
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
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He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.
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There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.
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The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.
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Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
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When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.
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My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.
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I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
