"I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no."
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"I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell."
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"I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste."
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"At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else."
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"there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear."
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"If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book."
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"I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known."
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"The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes."
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"The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description."
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"Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send a geologist or do you want to send a robot?" Well, the real answer is, you can send 100 robots for the price of sending one geologist, so let's send 100 robots to 100 different locations, and then we would all benefit. So that's the answer you would get. And I agree with that answer."
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"Dates are always hard. You don't want to be too dressed up or too casual."
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"And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry."
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"I would not want to write something about something I do not think about"
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"If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society."
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"I really believe in clothes that are new, that are innovative - but that everybody wants to wear."
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"If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else."
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"Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity."
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"That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing."
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"I don't want to be Kobe, I want to be LeBron."
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"If you want to wear nude, go with suede or a beautiful leather, please, if I see one more nude patent stiletto on the carpet I feel like I'm going to kill somebody."
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