You Quotes
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
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I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
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A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.
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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
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You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.
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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
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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.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
