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For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

Natalie Dormer

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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

Taylor Hackford

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I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

Skitch Henderson

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Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Hoda Kotb

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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

Sandra Oh

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Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

Lloyd Bridges

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Oh my gosh! I can't tell you the number of times people have put autotune on my voice, and I'm like, 'Please take it off!' You don't even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot!

Leona Lewis

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A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.

William Golding

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From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Frank Lowy

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I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.

Tig Notaro

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When I get home, I'm not the boss like I am at work - I slip into a more feminine role. I take everything off and put on my Stella McCartney silk robe. I'll put on a red lip or red nails, and it lifts my mood. Sexy underwear also gives you a spark.

Miranda Kerr

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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

Karl Schroeder

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Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.

Hasso Plattner

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I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

Richard Linklater

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Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

Gary Shteyngart

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When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'

Chris Evans

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For sure, my sneakers gotta match my jacket.

Dexter Darden

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I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.

Steven Millhauser

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When I'm not shooting, I don't wear much makeup. I just moisturize and maybe put on a berry-colored balm on my lips and cheeks, and then mascara - that's it. My face and hair gets abused every single day, so I try take it easy on off days.

Priyanka Chopra

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