Denis Waitley Quotes
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.
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When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.
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Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
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You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
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Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.
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Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
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I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
