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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
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If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
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You can't escape from what you are.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
