Tim Gunn Quotes
I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.
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We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
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Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.
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Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
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Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.
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I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.
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I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me..
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I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.
