Seth Godin Quotes
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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My mom and I are very close.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there - it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
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I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.
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I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.
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I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.
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If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
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The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.
