Rory Stewart Quotes
I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
Quotes to Explore
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
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Respect, recognition, and reward flows out of performance.
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You ain't got the answers Sway!
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
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Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.
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My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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The joy of life is living it, or so it seems to me;In finding shackles on your wrists, then struggling till you're free;In seeing wrongs and righting them, in dreaming splendid dreams,Then toiling till the vision is as real as moving streams.The happiest mortal on the earth is he who ends his dayBy leaving better than he found to bloom along the way.
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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
