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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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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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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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
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Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
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The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
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Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
