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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

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PeopleThinkGeniusCreateKindOut

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

John Dryden

SoulJealousy

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

Andrea Arnold

MindActorNeverWrite

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

John Knoll

EverythingSomethingPaidBeen

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

Robert Morgan

PeopleLongNarrativeWellCentury

I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.

Rob McClure

WiseMeComedyYouPersonKnow

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

Mike Lowry

RockOutLikeSettingElectronic

I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn't so much the things she says, it's mainly what she does. That's what make her all the more beautiful.

JC Chasez

WomenBeautifulMindThinkPicture

I've always loved mermaids!

Jazz Jennings

LovedAlways

'The Purge' is really about America's crazy relationship to guns and guns gone wild, essentially, and it kind of laid the groundwork for 'Get Out.'

Jason Blum

RelationshipCrazyAmericaKindWild

Trump can bring jobs back, but they will be minimal-wage jobs, not the high-paying jobs of the 1950s.

Joseph Stiglitz

BackWill1950sBringTrumpJobs

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

Shelley Duvall

LifeHappyPeopleHappy LifeYou

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Thomas Paine

HeartItalyVaticanDagger

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