Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I chose my house because I loved the fact that there was a really busy road with lots of things to stare at.
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I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
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Many of us who have cars have felt some form of extreme anger at other drivers because we feel they have put us in harm's way. We might even envision ramming their cars or cutting them off in return, but do we actually do it? No, because the overwhelming majority of us never want to take another human life.
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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.
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For me, like somebody with finer hair, the key thing is not cutting too many bangs and really just framing my face versus doing a real fringe.
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The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time.
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For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.
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You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.
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The 'Star Wars' universe is full of technological and cutting-edge effects, which Base FX will be a wonderful partner to create with.
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Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power.
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
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I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.
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...labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these; there's a fun people have with their identifications. The irony of them can be lost if you're just wholeheartedly anti-identitarian.
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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
