You Quotes
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Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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You just have to do what you know is right.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
