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Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.
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When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.
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Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
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My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'
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When you're changing your diet, or you're becoming a vegan, your system will become a bit more sensitive, and you just have to deal with it.
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I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
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I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.
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I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.
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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
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The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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Race is still real and you got to recognize it.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.
