Charles Dickens Quotes
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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If you have less games, less back-to-backs, the product's better. The fans will appreciate it more. You see those college guys playing so hard, but they play 36 games in the same amount of time we play 82 almost.
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You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center.
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I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?'
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.
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If you're going to go to a festival, drink water for six days before you get there.
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I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.
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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
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Nonprofits such as the Trump Foundation are prohibited from giving political gifts.
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If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.
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At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
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Don't say I never gave you anything," he said. " I gave you the stars. Good night, little sister.
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Joe gave me some more gravy.
