Seth Godin Quotes
You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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Don't talk it, walk it.
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I wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be known. Yes, it's difficult sometimes. I believe that if you're going to be in a profession like this, which is so open to criticism, to speculation, you need to have people around you who will believe in you and stand by you.
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I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.
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Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin.
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I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.
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I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.
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That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
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You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.
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You learn from everything.
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You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
