Warren Farrell Quotes
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
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People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
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Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
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I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.
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We got it all destined to fall.
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In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination...
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.
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It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.
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Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape.
