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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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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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What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
