Neil Strauss Quotes
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
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I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
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Life is less than nothing without love.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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They say love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.
