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"Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough."
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"My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced."
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"At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there."
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"I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again."
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"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."


"I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange."
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"I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier."


"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."


"I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced."
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"So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out."
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"I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process."
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"What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want."
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"Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty."


"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."
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"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!"
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"If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible."


"You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty."
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"I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it."
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"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."
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