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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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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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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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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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
