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I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

I believe in something.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.