You Quotes
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.
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The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.
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People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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Figure out who you are.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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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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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.
