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When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'
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I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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The crazy thing about the dab is like - dance moves, once you create them, they last forever.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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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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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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Honesty will never break you.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
