Geoff Stults Quotes
I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.
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Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
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With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
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Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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My fans are amazing and super loyal.
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Today, racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority-but as an inalienable right if practiced by a minority.
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When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.
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At some point, you got to stop caring about people's expectations and care only about your expectations of yourself.
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In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.
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The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed.
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I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.
