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I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.


James Broughton
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Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.
Tony Scott
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I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
Wole Soyinka
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I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.
Naomi Watts
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.


Ralph Waite
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I have never understood the Iowa caucus.


Larry King
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I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.


Nikki Sixx
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
Norman Jewison
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I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.


Ethel Waters
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Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.


Barbara Broccoli
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
Fiona Apple
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The passion for money is never fickle.


Mason Cooley
Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
Dan Gilroy
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
Wislawa Szymborska
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You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
James St. James
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I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.
Nikki Sixx
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Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.


Jules Verne
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No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.
Therese Fowler
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
Ashwin Sanghi
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I'm not friends with any of my exes, and I've never understood the appeal.


Chelsea Handler
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