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People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

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When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

Everybody Little Own Say
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We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Badness Becomes Cope Good
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The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Awful Blame Books Find
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I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
About Close Detail Enough
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Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine.
Either Gets How Internal
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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Spoil Bad Bunch Good
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Activities Anything Everything Learned
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I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

Connected Deeply Feel Imagine
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You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that some people respond to.

Anything Ask Doing Entire
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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

About Answer Books Done
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I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Got Move Move On Paragraph
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I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously.
Couple Days Go ICan
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Change Experience I HaveLearned Learned
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
Five All Wives Wrong
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

Character Closure Exactly Fall
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I love pizza; you can't really go wrong with pizza.
Go Love Pizza Really
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I am who I am, and I can't change that. It's not something I've labored over.
Am Change Labored Over
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Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

Along Done Jump Something
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In racing, you want to win - there are no rules, and you can do whatever you want. Flying a plane is the opposite: you respect rules and fly to the rules. You can't possibly compare the two.

Compare Fly Flying NoRules
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I hate being famous. You have no freedom. You can't do anything.

Anything Being BeingFamous Famous
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The idea that people would work on themselves, who hadn't had an accident - I can't stand plastic surgery.

Accident Had Idea People
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You can still fight when someone can't talk.
Fight Someone Still Talk
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

Amazing Any Back Been
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When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

About Again Beautiful Cherished
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Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
Describe My home Charm Words
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

Never Say Thought Way
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I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

Collective Experience Film Going
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Time is indomitable, you can't stop it, reverse it, hold it or pause it.

Time Indomitable Stop it Reverse it
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

Always Decide Decision Enough
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

Just Kids Survive Three
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
New Old Teach Tune
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

Anytime Asking Because Course
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You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.

Big Dogs Like Puppy
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I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.
Believe Control So much Worry
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You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.
Audience Fans Lie You
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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Anybody Balancing Eat Grow
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

Around Beat China Country
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
After Club Go Inspiration
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

BeAMan Everyone God Help
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Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.

Adolescence Based Because Bill
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To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

Asked Complain Get Like
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Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

Audience Based Different Even
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

Age Any Decide Feel
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When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.
Album Any Material Out
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When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.

Act Back Beyond Comedian
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I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

Beatles Deal Hate Press
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My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

Doing Fun HaveFun NoSense
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The dream is to have it all. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? Live this life, that life, this life, you know? You only live one time - I want to get it all in.

Cake Dream Eat Get
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

A Character Contrived Like
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