You Quotes
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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You reach a point where you don't work for money.
