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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.
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Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.
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Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.