Seth Godin Quotes
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
Quotes to Explore
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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My parents noticed my love for clothes and encouraged me to study design abroad. I decided to join the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York but never ended up there.
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Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!
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Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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The moment with Hawkeye is all about mutual attraction, expressed without filter from him, and a surrendering of social guardedness from Cora. She accepts his directness as her own.
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Ὡς ἑκὼν ἐγὼμαθοῦσιν αὐδῶ κοὐ μαθοῦσι λήθομαι.
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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I'm not someone who wants to be second-guessed at all.
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Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.
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I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.
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The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly to the fact that no such person as King Arthur ever presided over a Round Table. Be this as it may, romance still hugs her heroes to her heart as possessions to be not willingly let die.
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Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
