Seth Godin Quotes
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.
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The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
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I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
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My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
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I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
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As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.
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Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.
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If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?
