Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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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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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.'
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It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
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I have been in this business for over 30 years. I've seen a lot of development programmes. They don't all run smoothly.
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In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
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The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces.
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It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
