Calvin Coolidge Quotes
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
