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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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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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Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.
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Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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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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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
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You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
