"I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker."
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"I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?"
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"Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative."
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"I think we need to prepare for the worst, and so I support energy efficiency measures."
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"A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you."
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"If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative."
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"I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person."
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"I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way."
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"Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice."
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"At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'"
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"If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell you what might happen. To put it bluntly - the mountains could come down upon them. I think they are going to get shook up. I think we are in store for a lot of things if we don't reprent and return to the way of God."
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"I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot."
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"Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense."
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"I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions."
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"Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves."
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"I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia."
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"I think of 'crazy' as what happens when we love the other person more than we love ourselves."
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"I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch."
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"And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink."
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"Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God."
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