Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
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You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
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Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?
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One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
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It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
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I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.
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You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.
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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.
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The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.
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I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.
