Seth Godin Quotes
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
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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 work of a poet who has a real talent, but not for words.
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If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.
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I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.
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Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.
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That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.