- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky to be alive. I'm one of only 40 people who have survived the surgery I had, and when you've been that close to dying, you re-evaluate what's really important to you - and it's nothing to do with fame and money.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that if people just came to one of my gigs, all would be revealed.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that frustrated me is that some people think success is all measured by money.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. I was disappointed to see the people I'd always thought of as pop stars. They would charge around the stage rather than enjoy the music.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, prints and performance as a way of drawing people into books and stories.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we're talking about someone creating something new, those rights are fairly well defined (in the United States, at least) under existing copyright law. But then there's often discussion about the rights of people who produce works under work-for-hire arrangements, which can be far more subtle and nuanced.
- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
- Dressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020