Because Quotes
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Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.
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I want to reach out to everybody with my music and my album, but you're never going to please everybody. Someone's going to say something because, you know, it's an opinionated industry.
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Maintaining a relationship is easy when you both are in same profession because you understand the work pattern.
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'The Strange Thing About the Johnsons' is so disturbing but so good, because it went through a lot of things that you don't really see, ever.
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My father is my best friend. Just growing up with him inspired me to appreciate music that much more because he appreciates music.
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My English is good because I have a good ear.
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I died. Which is fantastic, because I have died already; I have been there and come back. I am completely recovered, thank you.
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My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.
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Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.
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I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.
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In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.
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I'm particularly weird because I don't even like being looked at.
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Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.
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Because I couldn't go for three.
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I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.
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I have way more freedom in Los Angeles and in the U.S. But it's funny because when I have a meeting with producers or people from the industry, we go to a restaurant to meet someone, and nobody knows me. But all of the sudden, the entire kitchen comes out, and they start taking pictures with me, or at valet parking.
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'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.
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I never started doing the videos because I thought they were going to get millions of views. I started doing them because I was at home, and I was bored.
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I don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other things. The term 'scale' feels very scripted to me because I'm an improv player.
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Dealing with actors is incredibly complex because they oftentimes are like pieces of clay. They want to be told how you want it done. You have to then decide if you want to be the teller or if you want to give them agency.
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Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.
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We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they're not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.
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Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to be white like everyone else at school.
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Doing 'YHA' felt as if I was shooting for a film because it was a love story with a definite ending and good script.
