Randy Pausch Quotes
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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I never read about photography.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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'X-Men: First Class' was fun.
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The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.
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You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
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The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
