Tim Gunn Quotes
Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
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p. 51-52
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
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Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.
