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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Audience Bad Getting Good
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Annoying Generally Going People
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I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

About Cleopatra Going Lot
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

Done Every Failure Four
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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
About Finally Growing Growing Up
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

Drama I Think Life Much
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

About Anywhere Between Day
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

Behind Better Camera Cast
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

Consider Dialogue Necessary Plot
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Actually Bureau Disappear Earth
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

About Admired Beatles Choices
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
Am Figure Going Out
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My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Call Calls Child Convention
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Community Criminal Deserves Enforcement
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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Else Every Every Time Getting
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I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
Entertaining Entertaining People Like Miss
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Man, I really like Vegas.

Like Man Really Vegas
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I really love animals and enjoy working with them.

Animals Enjoy Love Really
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If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.

Actually Anyone Anyone Else Else
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My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

About Ask Curious Fame
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I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Back Bad Did Driving
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Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

Actress Am Close Had
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I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

About Care Doing Earned
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I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

Anonymity Normal Really Want
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I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

Actually Always Back Belonged
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I don’t really know what a hit battle is but I’m willing to go toe to toe with ANY worthy challenger. Lyrically, musically, physically. However they want it

Lyrically Musically Physically Hit battle
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I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.

Buy Couture Designer Few
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I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Brown Degree Fulfill History
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It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

About Also Cliche Fall
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

About Actions Am Anybody
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

Because Body Go Just
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

Always Care Darling Friends
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

Defying Doctors Doing Eat
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Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Apparent Arizona Capital Constitutional
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Bland Business Entertainment EntertainmentBusiness
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

Ever Got Interested Really
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

Books Death Death Penalty Most
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I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about
About Care Doing Failure
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People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

About Bit Even Feel
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I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Background Come Even Ever
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Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

Ascent Crucial Man Origin
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Bite Boot Feeds Hand
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Each Free Imitate Other
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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Best Game Heads History
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Find out who is truly for you and who is really your Enemy. Let conscience and Confidence Lead you all, As it has lead me all my Life.

Enemy Life Enemy Conscience
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The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things.

Could Different Different Things Difficulty
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Make-up is actually something I've always really loved.

Actually Always Loved Really
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