Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
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Funny is an attitude.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I would like to see America some day.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
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I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
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If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
