Eric Garcetti Quotes
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I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
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The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
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I always say, as a leader, you've got to know when to get out of the way.
