Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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I could have gone on flying through space forever.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.
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I'm able to impact kids' lives, I'm able to give back and I will impact so many kids' lives because I feel like that moment taught me that no matter where you are in life, no matter what you may want in life you keep going.
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It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.
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Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.
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Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
