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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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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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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I love doing period work, like all the trappings and the wigs and everything. It really helps when it's such a different world that you're immersing yourself in; it helps to get into the story, I think, and step into that different place.
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I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
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So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
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The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
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You're much better off to buy fresh fish from a market as opposed to buying something that's been frozen and processed and covered in breadcrumbs.
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Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.
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An exoteric book contains then two teachings: a popular teaching of an edifying character, which is in the foreground; and a philosophic teaching concerning the most important subject, which is indicated only between the lines.
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You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.
