Making Quotes
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One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason to exist in the world?' And you're reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist - whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.
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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.
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When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?
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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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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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Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.
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Work-wise I'm either doing one or the other. Either I'm sitting there making beats and I'm going to do that the whole day, then when it comes time for recording I'll go back to my beats that I have. If I don't like any of the beats that I made, I'll go to my friends who made beats and I'll try their beats.
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If you're good at the art and you wanna make money, then it's fine. But if you're just doing it because you know you're gonna make money, then I don't know. Some people do it just because they need the money, but it depends on a lot of things.
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I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.
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I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support your passion, the people that support you, it's the kind of people that go crazy and love your stuff.
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The best part of my job is that we can be making shows like 'Boardwalk', 'Thrones', 'True Blood' but also female-centered comedies like 'Enlightened', 'Veep' and 'Girls'.
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I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.
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You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.
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There's something that happens where you go, if you're lucky, goodness me, from film to another film to another film. And you can sort of feel that if you step off that treadmill, it might all go horribly wrong and you might never be employed again, you know. And I suddenly thought that that's not necessarily the case. And I also thought we make drama as actors about people in the world and that if you are on that treadmill, you start making films about other films.
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Just live in the moment and not be afraid to try things out and make mistakes.
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As for what l'm making now, perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!
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You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.
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It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.
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People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.
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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
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I fight with emotion, but I don't fight with anger. I could be angry, but I'm not going to fight with anger because when you fight with anger you can make mistakes.
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I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
