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"I've been looking at that in myself lately. Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted."
"I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time."
"Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget."
"Small projects need much more help than great."
"But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science."
"I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project."
"Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project."
"I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block."
"I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents."
"Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do."
"With each of those projects I wasnt thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasnt the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time."
"A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera."
"Beyoncé can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project."
"I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . ."
"If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part."
"It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects."
"As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive."
"You can complete a project by dropping it."
"The best project is one that asks a novel question."
"World peace is one project that we have to do together."
