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It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
James Coburn
Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.
Dilip Shanghvi
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Jack Prelutsky
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The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.
Joe Strummer
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It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.
Gillian Jacobs
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
Annie Besant
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I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.


Marilyn Hacker
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.


Francesca Annis
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The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.
Nick Flynn
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There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.
Robert Smith
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller
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I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.
Colman Domingo
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Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.


Sherry Stringfield
Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.
Robbie Williams
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I feel like people who come out to Los Angeles hoping to be an actor give up too easily, and/or they don't put in the amount of time that it really does take.
Sterling Beaumon
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No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.
Elizabeth Banks
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As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.
Rosie Perez
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As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.
Bette Midler
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I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.
Mickey Rourke
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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.


Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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