Evan Taubenfeld Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
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I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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When two sympatric, closely related species appear to have very similar needs, we may ask whether mechanisms exist that enable them to avoid direct competition. Implicit in this questions the presumption that two species with identical requirements cannot coexist (Gause 1934).
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I've always been a 'small goals' kind of guy.
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My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
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I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.
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I grew up in an all-white community.
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I'm the fastest walker, and everyone makes fun of me for it.
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I was once up for a part, and the male star was also producing the movie. They were talking about meeting with him or having an audition with him, and then we get the message, 'He wants to have dinner with you.' I said, 'Is that the audition, or is it that he just wants to have dinner with me?'
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.
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Confidence is the poor mans money.
