Simon Sinek Quotes
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
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My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.
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I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate in a family setting. Therefore, I have given over my life to mentoring young people. I'm adamant about young people who have been denied a father/daughter relationship.
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Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.
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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
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You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community.
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I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.
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It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.
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I like to make collages - paper collages.
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Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.
