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"392 Profession Quotes

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

Another Business Foolish Get
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How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

Comedy How I Love I Love Lucy
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Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

Anything Anytime Apart Everybody
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'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

Beyond Calm Collected Cool
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Your fans, they count on you to make wise decisions and wise choices. That's why they're your fan base. If you continually let them down, they're going to go find someone else to be fans of.

Base Choices Continually Count
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Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

Being Being There Best Experience
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I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.

Am Battle Being Camera
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Activity A Philosophy Theory
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My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

Best Every Every Night Give
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To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one.

Artist Certainly Could Crossed
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Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.

Amazing Crew Every Every Night
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If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.

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I hope someone thinks I sing good. I'm always working hard to sing better. I sound the way I sound, but I can always be better. I work hard at singing and being a better recording artist.

Always Artist Being Better
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A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Allowed Altogether Artist Critics
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Admired Appears Art Artist
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I never was a very good singer.
Good Never Singer Very
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Am Around Ease Feel
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Away Brushes Continue Etc
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

When Am Aware Doing
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Artist Expressing Feelings His
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Artist Energy Expressing Forces
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Big Brush Building Choose
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One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

Accept Accord Am Any
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Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Decide Gaze Like Look
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I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

Actor Different Feel Like
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Mere Opera World
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

About Army Done Her
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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

Arrogance Artist Profound Thing
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Emily Experience Great Imagination
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Brought Century Complains Disdain
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Bring Church Does Find
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I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.

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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

Better Get Hearing Hollywood
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The Academy is paranoid about its image.

About Academy Image Paranoid
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In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Acting Few Many Talented
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What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
Drives I Love Love Me
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A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Actress Age Attract Cameron
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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Character Comedy Enough Good
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Act Makes Sense Something
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

Bad Couple Directors Front
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It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

Act Actor Bit Give
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I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

About Been Before Exploration
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People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.

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Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Almost Any Certainly Choose
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Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

Any Context Conversation Could
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
Become Becomes Being Being Famous
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Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

Actor Before Being Being A Man
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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

Actor Alone Being Concentration
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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

Actor Animals Boo Character
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