Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.
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Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.
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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
