Joshua Foer Quotes
When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
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I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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I just want to keep writing music.
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I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.
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I want to be on the cover of 'GQ.' That's a personal goal.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I do not think we can dismiss the contribution that people make, particularly when it is a very dangerous occupation to be involved in building support for the peace process.
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Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.
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When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.
