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People Quotes


"You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?"


"Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability."


"Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things."


"It's drama, it's a lot of things, but you know it's always about every movie or every TV project ever made is meant to be watched. If people like it and support it, that's what it is all about, really it's sort of the important part about it."


"I only want people around me who can do the impossible."


"The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream."


"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."


"I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives."


"Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking."


"Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be."


"You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before."


"I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out."


"I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff."


"The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents."


"People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves."


"Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for."


"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."


"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."


"I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am."


"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."


"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."


"I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other."


"I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them."


"People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous."


"As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary."


"I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me."


"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."


"There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people."
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