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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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.
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You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'
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After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.
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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.
