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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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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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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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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.
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Do what you're passionate about.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
