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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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When you do it yourself, you feel better.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
