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"1056 Career Quotes

I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

About Adventures Conversation Dictate
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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Camera Child Giving Hands
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Becomes Enough Hands He
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Baby Being Between Book
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech

Acceptance Also Care Don'tCare
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Any man who turned me down reminded me that I had to work and pray hard.

Work Pray hard Reminded Man
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Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

After Best Directing Great
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I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.

Course Except Go Just
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One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

About Best Blame Confusion
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People don’t need careers. People should just exist.

People Need Careers Exist
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Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Amazing Been Before Building
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Artist Belongs His Work
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

Actor Myself Never Seriously
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

Because ByTheTime Die Dying
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

Actor Comedy Cool Dramatic
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I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

Definitely Dramatic Like More
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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

Believe Casting IThink Movie
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Artist Competition God Somebody
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Artist Artists Burdens Citizen
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Artists Labels Resistant
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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Artist Besides Me Movie
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

Broke England Horses Much
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

Always Doing Enjoyed Songs
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Always Childhood Financial Great
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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

Become Daughter Grow GrowUp
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I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

About Always Career Come
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Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

Any Artist Calling Duty
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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

After Drawings Getting Handwriting
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

Artists Coming Communication Engaged
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I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Could Craft Day Developing
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

Act How I Can Jobs
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

Able Artists Because Been
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

Actor Career Early Get
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My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

About Available Base Because
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I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches, and I do this voluntarily.

Almost Am Catholic Churches
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At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

About Area Complete Defense
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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Am American Audience Color
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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

Am Anybody IAm Never
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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

Compulsion Decline Discuss Else
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If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me.

Always Audience Get Got
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I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

Batch Deadly Different DifferentKinds
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Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.

Chose Comedy Me Something
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It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.

About Anymore Doing ICan
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I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

Advantage Guy Kind Position
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My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

Acting Career Help Household
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I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.
Cowboy Horseback Just JustBe
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My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.

Day Get Motto MyMotto
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My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

About Always Big Cautious
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I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

About Antithesis Because Job
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Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

Actor Any Basically Believe
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