Seth Godin Quotes
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
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Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.
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A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.
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The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
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If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
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When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
