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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

Ben Affleck

People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, “In the movies, they do crazy stuff.”
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Business Crazy Kind Movie People
I dyed my hair for photo tests… I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?
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Color Hairs Myself Photography
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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Energy Internet Voice World
If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
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Call Hotel Myself Person Wake Up
I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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Fashion Myself Thinking
It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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Knock Life Yourself
I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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Aware Home Myself People Revolution Thinking
It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
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Actor Childhood Fantasy Movie Myself Thief
I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
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Description Emotion Feeling Identity Insecurity Myself
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn’t they? It’s great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, ‘I’m just gonna go to Hollywood!’ is that it seems unrealistic.
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Greatness Hollywood People Realistic Thinking
It’s important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.
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Hands Leaving Life Realize Yourself
I feel things more deeply anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
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Aspect Body Children Difference Feeling Life Myself Reach Vulnerable
My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She’s definitely got some war stories.
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Mom Myself Public School Story Teaching Try War
No actor forgets the times he couldn’t get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don’t want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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Fear Forget Job Momentum Stop Time Yourself
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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Fame Feeling Myself Wasted Time
I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
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Father Fear Hope Key Myself Optimism See Thinking

A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

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