Hayden Fry (John Hayden Fry) Quotes
We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
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There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
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Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
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At Amazon, we were not working with the e-commerce division but with the Web services team. We started Flipkart completely from scrap. Moreover, the whole shopping behaviour and infrastructure challenges in the Indian market were different from that in the U.S. and European markets.
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The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.
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How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.
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When I first joined the team, I was playing with the likes of Mia Hamm, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett - all those big-time players. It was very intimidating. I had some of these players' posters on my wall growing up, and now I was able to play with them.
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When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.
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I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.
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The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America's insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.
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The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don't like it. I don't like that. I don't begrudge anyone money, but it disrupts the football team.
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Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.
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To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
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I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.
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Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.
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Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.
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We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
