"You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself."
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"Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them."
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"The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation."
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"If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day."
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"People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?"
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"People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds."
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"Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record."
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"I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better."
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"When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near."
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"People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are."
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"One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are."
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"For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried."
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"Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world."
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"People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be."
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"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
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"We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent."
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"I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it."
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"The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story."
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"Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me."
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"If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons."
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