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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and…
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them.…
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Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive…
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...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts…
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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
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Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down…
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That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper…
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When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in…
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There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
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But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain…
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I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious…
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