Brett Favre Quotes
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.
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It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
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With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
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I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
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Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.
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Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere.
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
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Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.
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The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.
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Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
