John Muir Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.
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I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
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I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.
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Most interesting forest I have seen in my whole life.
