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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There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.
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If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
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When I think about people like Queen Latifah, who literally found a script for me to star in, that's what I want to be for somebody. When you look at someone like Queen Latifah, or you think about the Will Smiths, those people are multifaceted. They do so many different things, but most important, they give back.
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What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted? 2
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A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.
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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.
