Making Quotes
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Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.
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I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music.
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There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.
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We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
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Making mistakes is how we learn.
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Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
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I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.
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I'm not sure I like making movies that my kids can't go to, but that's just how it is.
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Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.
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You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.
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You never know when you're making a memory.
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Destroying things is much easier than making them.
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People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you're going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that's what's happen - I'm always remember Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Yasser Arafat and the reluctance in - Yasser Arafat put his hand down and the reluctance of Yitzhak Rabin, but then he had that second and then he just shook the hand.
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Acting is way of making yourself exist.
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Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.
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Politics is history in the making.
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Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.
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By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
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It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.
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In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.
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I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.
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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?
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The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
