"With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech."
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"Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable."
"You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first."
"I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you."
"That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people."
"Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever."
"It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there."
"Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface."
"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."