You Quotes
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.
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When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
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Ferrari gives you a special feeling.
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It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
