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Trump gives his thoughts on dressing well at all times:
I always wear a suit–looking one’s best is good for confidence. High self-esteem is important for effective performance. Dressing well is also a sign of respect, for yourself and for others. I know what I’ll wear every day, which is a suit. It saves time, and I know I’ll look appropriate. I have too much to think about to devote a lot of time to it.
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Andre 3000 talks about starting a clothing line in a recession:
It’s not like we planned it this way, but it actually kind of helps. The person that I’m making clothes for doesn’t want to wear the same thing as everyone else, and so our biggest advantage is that we can be exclusive. If a man’s wearing Benjamin Bixby, you know he’s in the know.
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Samberg talks about his approach to comedy:
I think the goal of most comedy, just like most movies or television, is an escape from the mundane stuff in our life, and I’ve always found it worthwhile to make something completely stupid just to prove that you can. People in general are too stressed-out, even though most things are pretty ridiculous.
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Depp talks about working on the set of the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:
We were doing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I was on the set. We were shooting, working, working, working. All great. Everything’s cool. One of my pals comes up and says, Helena [Bonham Carter, Burton’s partner] just called. When you get a moment, she’d like you to give her a call back. Okay, I say. As soon as I’m done on set, I’ll go back to my trailer and give her a call. So I go back to the trailer, call Helena, and say, Hey, what’s going on? I thought maybe Helena had a question about little boys because Billy was a little baby then and I’ve got two kids. So I say, Is everything all right? And she says, Billy’s fine. Everything’s fine. But, well, you know how Tim is.
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Haggis talks about creating the film, In the Valley of Elah:
I told my agent, Look for anything you know will never get made. I was given Mark Boal’s Death and Dishonor and took it to the studios. Of course, nothing happened. They weren’t going to touch this. So I called Clint Eastwood.
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Hansen talks about the parallel investigation model used for the show To Catch a Predator:
I think it has. I mean obviously it raises issues and we discuss these issues before going into every one of these investigations. And I think we’ve addressed them. And obviously there are people, you know, at the Poynter Institute and other places that think it’s too close. You know after the Fairfax County Virginia investigation, we interviewed law enforcement after the fact, and Perverted Justice provided transcripts after the fact. But it was difficult for them [the police] to make a case. Some cases were made after that investigation. But it was difficult. You know, in the model that we used in Riverside I think it served our viewers and it served public safety in the best way that we could.
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Farrow talks about being formerly married to Sinatra:
When I married Frank Sinatra, my father had recently died, and he had just turned fifty, and people said, Oh, you’re looking for a father. It’s hard for me to, um, deny or confirm. But what I will tell you is that he was the coolest, handsomest, sexiest guy. I don’t think there are many women of any age who could have resisted him. He was utterly charming. Absolutely adorable. So you can talk father all you like — he wasn’t anything like my father.
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Howard gives his thoughts on getting occasional bad reviews for movies he creates:
I keep asking myself, Why do I care? I know that my work is a result of 110 percent effort. I know how I feel about the film. Why do I care about reviews? Why do I care about the box office? But as soon as I ask the question, a voice in the back of my head always answers, Because youhave to care. You can’t live without caring. That’s who you are, and therefore you must suffer from time to time.
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Noujaim discusses making the film Control Room:
So with the Iraq war coming, part of my interest in making Control Room specifically came from the fact that I grew up in the Middle East, though my mother’s American and I went to college in the U. S. I was watching very different perceptions of what was happening, what would be good for this world, and whether the Iraq war was actually going to increase anti-American sentiment and terrorism among the moderates in the Middle East. I wanted to be in the center of it. But what was the center?
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Rihanna talks about life on the road touring:
I hate going to hotels when I’m on tour. I like to stay on the bus. I can sleep, I can shower, I can just pull up right to the venue everyday. I work out. I have a trainer. So, she trains me wherever, whenever. Touring messes with my metabolism, so I have to get tight.
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Glick talks about his Comedy Central show Primetime Glick:
And now I’m blessed with the opportunity to talk to celebrities and get a sense of the worlds that they inhabit so wondrously. Case in point: A fortnight ago, I was gabbin’ with the irrepressible Kathie Lee Gifford about her switch from Jewishness to born-again-ness. She asked me if I was aware that Jesus was a Jew, and I said, No, but I had heard that he was thrifty.