Seth Godin Quotes
People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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With Caavo, you don't have to know the device name, the network name, the service name. Just which show you want to watch, regardless of whether it's live, recorded, downloaded or streaming.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
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It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff.
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Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
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If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
