Eminem Quotes
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.
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If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
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I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.
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Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.
