People Quotes
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It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
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We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when you let people who are so talented at improv go, what you're going to get. You don't want to strangle them with your own words, because probably what they're going to say is way better.
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I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.
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One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
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Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
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I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you.
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There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
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Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine?
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I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.
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The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.
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It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.
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Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.
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In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.
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I've discovered home is not a place anymore. It's the people around you.
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Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.
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A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.
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I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.
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People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.
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Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
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My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
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You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.
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The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.
