Neil Cross Quotes
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.
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If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.
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To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.
