Martin Seligman Quotes
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
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You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.
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Reaching beyond where you are is really important.
