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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
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"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
Movies
"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
Business
"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."
Reading
"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
Film
"Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it."
Film
"I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong."
Government
"I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people."
People
"I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses."
Actor
"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."
Fiction
"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."
Business
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