People Quotes
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I go all over the place. I do like the ability to go around the company at different levels to find the people that have the actual answers to the question.
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If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.
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I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.
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Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink.
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I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we're not going to benefit financially unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the playing field so much more level.
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I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.
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I can't picture myself being the people I always looked up to.
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I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality.
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My brain is here for the picking, and a lot of people are calling me to see what I think about their business, and I'm brutally honest with them.
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I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This has nothing to do with religion. It's about safety.
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We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.
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I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.
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An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'
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I have a couple screenplays that are done, and I'm looking for the right people to help me make them. I do a lot of television writing to develop new ideas for shows.
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The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.
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I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.
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Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
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In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in the world where I grew up, in Chicago in the Fifties and Sixties, one key way of protesting ourselves - 'we' meaning black people - against racism, against its stereotypes and its insults, was to curate and narrate very carefully the story of the people.
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Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand; your brand is what keeps you moving.
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If I want to do something powerful or special, then I contact people I think are smart, educated, inspiring and I'll say, "What are you doing? How can I help?"
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.
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To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.
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Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.
