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• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Ideas, Scripts, Performances

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Play, Forever

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

  Keith Murray

  Song, Emotional, Thinking

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• I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Character, Divorce

  Interview with David Cronenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.

  Edward Norton

  New York, Successful, Effort

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Landon Palmer, filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

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• Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  War, Latin, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily.

  Aesop Rock

  People, Guy, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters, in order to give them their journey. My job is to come in and try to make those words on the page come alive on camera.

  John Barrowman

  Jobs, Character, Journey

  Source: collider.com

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• Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

  Maggie Smith

  Heart, Trying, Cry

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Childhood, Magic

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• We know too much for one man to know too much.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Men, Knows, One Man

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.85, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

  Bent Larsen

  Book, Lucky, Serious

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• We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

  Robert Jensen

  Luxury, People, Despair

  "Why I Will Not Rally Around the President" by Robert Jensen, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2001.

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• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

  Francis Bacon

  Power, Authority, Interchange

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• Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work at all. I can't see myself retiring and fondling a dog every day. I like to get up and work and go out. I have too much energy or too much nervous anxiety or something. So I don't see myself retiring. Maybe I will suddenly get a stroke or a heart attack and I will be forced to retire, but if my health holds out I don't expect to retire.

  Woody Allen

  Dog, Retirement, Heart

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome with Love". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. June 2012.

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• Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Sacrifice

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• I've wrecked my fair share of cars. I've had my fair share of injuries. If you put too much focus on it or you really worry about it, it's going to consume you. That's never good.

  Justin Allgaier

  Worry, Car, Focus

  "A CSJ Conversation with Justin Allgaier". Interview with CSJ, christiansportsjournal.com. March 10, 2017.

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• People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

  Clive James

  Writing, People, Should

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Art Beat, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings of Christ, we must make sure that it can never have temporal power. Religion has its place and politics has its own. These two should not be mixed together or the result would be catastrophic.

  Ali Sina

  Teaching, Two, Church

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Smoking and drinking too much is not the way to fitness. Love your body and treat it good.

  Sunny Leone

  Drinking, Love You, Smoking

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• I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don't interfere with them too much. And then when they're great, take credit for it in the end.

  Woody Allen

  People, Lucky, Credit

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• A joke is a joke, and people put too much meaning behind it. They react to it in the wrong way. I mean, you can boo or laugh, and that's pretty much what you're supposed to do with jokes. You're not supposed to take it any further than that.

  Dave Attell

  Mean, People, Laughing

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