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Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself. — Kevin Smith
Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people… — Wilbur Smith
Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced… — Eliot Spitzer
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event. — Sylvester Stallone
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got… — J. Michael Straczynski
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings… — Constantin Stanislavski
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. — Stendhal
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of… — Cat Stevens
When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After… — J. Michael Straczynski
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers… — James Surowiecki
Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that. — Paul Taylor
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. — Paul Theroux
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. — Hunter S. Thompson
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow… — Hunter S. Thompson
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. — Alexis de Tocqueville
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to… — Peter Tosh
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent. — Calvin Trillin
You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was… — Josh Turner
I think the main thing for kids is to have them believe in themselves. — Dwyane Wade
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things… — Rufus Wainwright
My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music.… — Gerard Way
By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with… — Andrew Weil
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to… — Jack Welch
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred… — H.G. Wells
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. — Rebecca West

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