Ewan McGregor Quotes

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

Ewan McGregor

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• It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

  

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• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
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• You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
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• We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

  Dan Brown
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  • Tell

• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Trust
  • Values
  • Vote

• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Trust
  • Progress
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• I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Work
  • Together
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• I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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  • Innovation
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• I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Trust

• People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not just accept the cynical frame that, 'Well, that's just politics.'

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Believe
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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
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• There's all these proofs that go on of identity, of records, and they're quite non-digital. The blockchain innovation really allows us to take everything where there's record keeping, everything where there's trust around record keeping, and it allows us to make that digital, immutable, permanent, and global.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Trust
  • Identity
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• I trust people until they give me a reason not to trust them.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • People
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• Donald Trump I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw him.

  

  Mark Cuban
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• It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• I think many people simply feel like they don't recognize their country anymore.

  

  John Cornyn
  • People
  • Country

• Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • Church
  • Prayer

• When I was told my team was lucky to win, I replied: "the more we practice, the luckier we get."

  

  Steve Blake
  • Practice
  • Win
  • Luckier

• I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Trust
  • Actors
  • Reader