Hale Irwin Quotes
People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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Without justice you won't have stability.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.
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I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
