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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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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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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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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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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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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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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
