Diego Godin Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
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No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
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People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.
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My approach to portraiture is conceptual.
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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.
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We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
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The mentality is always to win.
