I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.
Haruki Murakami
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I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
Joe Eszterhas
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I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
Andrew Cuomo
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I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
Robert Quine
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In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.
Sloane Crosley
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There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
Tony Scott
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Everything is connected, so you can't just live in a Trumpian world and be an isolationist when you're managing government by congressional district or by city. The mentality that you can cut off one area to punish a policy just doesn't work in the real world... it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Mike Quigley
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I'm happily married.
Javier Bardem
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For Obama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement - unilaterally abrogated by Trump - was part of the 'pivot to Asia,' a re-assertion of the role of America in that part of the world.
Joseph Stiglitz
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American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
Diane Wakoski
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The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.
Diane von Furstenberg
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I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
Brett Ratner
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I've seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.
Brandon Jay McLaren
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