Seth Godin Quotes
You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
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I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.
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If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.
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I grew up on a farm and didn't have connections, and I had a dream that I believed in, and I felt passionate about it, so if I can instill hope into somebody too with the film, that's what I most want.
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Virility of one kind or another is so important if you are to feel like a man. You have to be able to perform stunts. You have to be able to show off in front of your woman, do things she urges you not to do because they look dangerous. (p. 64).
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If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.
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I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.
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You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.
