Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. Quartered, disembowelled creatures on suspended hooks plead with me. I feel myself dispossessed of the divinity.
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I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.
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Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
