You Quotes
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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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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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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You have to be resilient.
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You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
