Babe Paley Quotes
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
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I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
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Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
