Denis Waitley Quotes
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.
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But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
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Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin' or broader forms of not just survival but triumph.
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I did all this standup comedy in college, and from that point on, I tried to develop myself and get my name back out there.
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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
