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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Certainly Dollars Down Dumb
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Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Been Best Dogs Horses
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Civil Civil Service Examination Federal
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I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Afraid Age Certain Certain Age
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Everyone Help Someone We
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
Create Entertainment Eyes Interest
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And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Any Beyond Feel Form
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Artists Bit Cases Country
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

Goal Going Hard Life
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Back Crocodile Eat Feeding
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Difficulty I Write Notes Singing
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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Course Me People Quotes
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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

Certainly Destroyed Destroying Ever
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
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Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Ask Dream I Dream Men
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Adversity Hard Hundred Man
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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 was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Along Electrician Got Line
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Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Anyone Back Because Big
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I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

Correct Evening I Think Quite
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I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
Bad Been Expect Getting
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From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Always Exactly Exactly What Going
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I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else.

Becomes Date Else Everyone
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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 know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare

Know Love Other Shakespeare
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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Experience Go Journey Learn
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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

America Any Because Being
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

Air BrPower Did Dr
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Sleep Lse Someone Talk
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Books Forgotten None Remembered
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Originality Confuse Never Aim
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Bores Rich Down Office
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I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Day Hope Law One Day
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I'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young.

About Changed Experience Food
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Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Access Control Destiny Every
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Not everybody fights and quarrels with you because they have an issue with you. Some do it because they have an issue with themselves.

Quarrels Issue Fights Everybody
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Anything Becoming Fear Has-Been
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Degree Effective Indispensable Leadership
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Escape Eyes Only Others
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Always Cheating Feeling He
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Creates Desire Intense Intense Desire
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Gives Giving He His
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Awareness Become Different Must
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I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older.

Able Avoid Because Black
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I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.

I Think Idea Lipstick Night
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Make-up is actually something I've always really loved.

Actually Always Loved Really
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I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
Despised God Heathen Some
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

Along Among Ancient Beach
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