Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
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Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
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It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.
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I want a '57 Starfire Olds.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.
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The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
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XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.
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Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.
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I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.
