Things Quotes
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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
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In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
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Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.
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Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
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This satire business, that was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. I was certified funny. From then on, I had to be funny - people expected it. Twice the work for the same pay.
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I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.
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The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.
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I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.
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People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart.
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There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
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I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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I'm trying to just accept things, accept the beauty of things and the joy and positivity of things as they are in the moment and accept when it's not that way as well. Because, of course, none of it lasts forever. It's all going to change very rapidly. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. It doesn't have to be panic-inducing. It can be just the way life is.
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Certain things I did as general partner of LJM were illegal.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.
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The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
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I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.
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Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.
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I try not to invent things that people don't need.
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Even when things feel calm, there is still a risk.
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I like working with directors because I'm really opinionated about what things work and may not work, what audiences like and may not like, (not really) but I do have opinions about things. I like to be able to say them and then have them acted on. The director who responds to me like that, always gets my appreciation. I do appreciate it. What I find is the best directors, no matter what kind of name they have, are like that.
