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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If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
