Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
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I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
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My father, more perceptive than many, wryly commented that by the time I was an adult there might not be an Indian Civil Service to enter. He turned out to be right. I had to settle for British politics instead.
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I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.
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There is no national problem in the world today, which cannot be resolved by reason alone.
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
