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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
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You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
