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I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
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If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.
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But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.
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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.
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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
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You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.
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Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.
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What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
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The only thing you ever have is now.
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
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I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.
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I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.
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It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
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'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.