When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
BRAD PITTOne of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.
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I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].
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Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
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I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.
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The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!
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I’ve been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all.
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I’m actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say no all the time. ‘No’ is the most powerful word in our business. You’ve got to protect yourself… To leave home, it’s got to be worth leaving. It’s got to be worth it.
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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.
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Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
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I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.
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I don’t feel restless, I just like to travel.
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I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
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When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn’t know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
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Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you should be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental.
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In Missouri, where I come from, we don’t talk about what we do – we just do it. If we talk about it, it’s seen as bragging.
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