Randy Pausch Quotes
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
Quotes to Explore
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
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Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don't like.
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I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
