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Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

Sylvester Stallone

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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Blow Myself Rejection Treat Wake Up
Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.
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Friendship Myself True
Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It’s much more of a business – very scientific.
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Business Different Game Movie Scientific
I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.
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Afford Family Kind Monument Project Statement Surround Thinking Yourself
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Heroism High Life Love Survive Yourself
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
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Action Formula Interesting Revenge
Nothing’s harder than writing. There’s no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There’s tremendous support – you’ve got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it’s all you, and it’s just crippling when people tear up your pages.
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Comparison Editor Hard Ideas People Sound Support Writing Yourself
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
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Avoid Compassionate Failure Fire Generosity Greatness Success Wonderful
Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.
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Artist Creativity Death Easy Oneself
If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
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Build Life Mountain Start Yourself
You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
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Break Destiny Life Neck Yourself
Like I said, I’ve got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support them emotionally and financially.
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Emotional Financial Marriage Respect Support Woman
That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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Burden Pride Reputation
I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.
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Experience Growth Music Myself News Report Thinking Watch
When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.
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Corner Darkness Hard Life Yourself
I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.
SYLVESTER STALLONE

Believe Blind Myself Optimism Success

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