Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes
It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, do a little bit of school, go to practice, do a little more school, then go back to practice. My mom had a crockpot and a mini traveling oven, so we'd be cooking and eating dinners at the gym.
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In the last couple of years I've been doing this sort of thing constantly, often repeating myself, becoming an avoidable Doomsday bore. But anything of importance - like a garden, a human relationship, a child, a religious faith, even the most convinced brand of atheism has to be worked on constantly if it is to survive.
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I am definitely a Tim Burton fan. I had seen 'Edward Scissorhands' enough times to know it by heart. That's exciting: to work on something you feel like you really get.
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The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.
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If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.
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I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.
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My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.
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There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
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I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.
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I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.
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It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can.
