You Quotes
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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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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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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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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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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If you use a bad password, your Bitcoin will get stolen.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
