Vance Havner Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.
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Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
