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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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Personal Development
"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."
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"I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it."
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
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"Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that."
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."
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"I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years."
Film
"Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film."
Music
"I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts."
Communication
"Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?"
History
"Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day."
Education
"It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time."
Time
"If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it."
People
"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."
Communication
"I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result."
History
"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."
Performance
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