Og Mandino Quotes
Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
Quotes to Explore
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.
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It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
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Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
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Whoever invented the word ‘grace’ must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
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The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
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Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
