"Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?"
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"I don't want to be so confident in myself."
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"Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be."
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"Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to."
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"The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks."
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"Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money."
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"Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained."
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"Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to."
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"A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around."
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"I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too."
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"The problems in the world were made so that you don’t get stuck and attached to this world. You get stuck with this world even though there are so many problems. Imagine if there are no problems, then you will never want to leave this material world!"
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"I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment."
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"If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly."
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"Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing."
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"Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy."
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"You always want your significant other to think that you hung the moon, but when you're working in music you also want them to be honest with you."
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"Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost."
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"We have enough to do just trying to make our company what we want it to be. As far as whether I would like to own Marvel, sure, I'd like to own Marvel."
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"I have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated."
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"Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know."
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