Walter Payton Quotes
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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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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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!
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We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
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What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.
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My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
