Labrinth Quotes
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I think writing novels has taught me more about the value of patience and being organized. I've learned to use timelines and wikis to track decisions and make sure everything still fits together. It's both easier and harder than writing short fiction.
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The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
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Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
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For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.
