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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
