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Robert Greene
Age: 34 †
Born: 1558
Born: July 11
Died: 1592
Died: September 3
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Poet
Writer
Norwich
Norfolk
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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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A mind content both crown and kingdom is.
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I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.
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Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.
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It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong.
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Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.
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The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.
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The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.
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True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.
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If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.
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Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger
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Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.
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Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.
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It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.
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You're not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don't love what you're doing. If it's not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to atack
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Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me, I want to work with serendipity and things we happened upon. That's our job, that's what the form demands.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.
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