Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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I want to be my own person.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
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Maltreatment is a chisel that shapes a brain to contend with strife, but at the cost of deep, enduring wounds. Childhood abuse isn’t something you “get over.”
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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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My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.
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That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
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If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
