Epictetus Quotes
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.
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The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
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No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.
