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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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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 wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
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Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.
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I want to show audiences I can act.
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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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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.
