E. W. Howe Quotes
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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If it is written in my destiny that I will go back to Pakistan, then I will. I won't be scared of going back.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.
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I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.
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When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
