Nicholas D'Agosto Quotes
I'm very thankful I'm finding my way, and people are excited to bring me into roles that demand a certain complexity.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.
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Money is just a way of keeping score.
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I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
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It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.
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It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
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I think that one day I won't have any kind of... sort of, or it will be either way, I won't have to think about anything. But at the moment, god I think probably because of what I do and the nature of how it is, I'm all over the place all of the time.
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Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.
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So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.
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I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. It's not so much a mess, but it just needs to have some feng shui or a real 'Queer Eye' makeover or whatever.
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Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list. It was a very long and very green night.
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There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting.
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I'm very thankful I'm finding my way, and people are excited to bring me into roles that demand a certain complexity.
