Norma Shearer Quotes
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'
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... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
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Glory is the child of peril.
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I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.
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Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
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The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.
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An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
