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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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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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As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.
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When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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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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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
