Harold S. Geneen Quotes
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.
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With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I'm lucky enough, then to inspire.
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Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known.
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We find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end.
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If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
