Seth Godin Quotes
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
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When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Who needs to walk on fire, when you can walk on water with this site.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
