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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
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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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Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
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If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
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You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
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'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
