Jeff Raikes Quotes
You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.
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Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.
