Edith Widder Quotes
Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
Quotes to Explore
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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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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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.
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The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
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I keep everything that's private private.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
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Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
