Seth Godin Quotes
All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
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She was the purest, biggest truth.
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You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
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Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.
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The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.
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I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.
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All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
