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Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
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It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
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Value is what you get.
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There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
