Walter Isaacson Quotes
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
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Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
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Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
