"I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed."
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"As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box."
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"Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects."
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"I didn't want food that looked unapproachable or ridiculously beautiful."
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"Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education."
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"There's only one God. Call him whatever you want"
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"What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen."
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"If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement."
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"One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about."
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"I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing."
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"If I have to be alone I want to be by myself."
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"I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?"
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"Films that I want to do are few and far between."
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"I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them."
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"I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want."
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"It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in."
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"If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself."
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"Change your life. If you want to get better, that is what you have to do."
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"I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing."
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"My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it."
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