Nancy Gibbs Quotes
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I love comic books and I love anime.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I optimize for brands and people I enjoy spending time with - we've invested in Warby Parker, Glossier, Outdoor Voices, Bonobos - because if you're having a good time, you're inherently going to be better at what you're doing. Even the bad times are tolerable when you're working alongside people you respect and like.
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Early numbers are always wrong.
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We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
