Tracy Spiridakos Quotes
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
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I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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I love to set up my teammates. I am not here to be a star, to show off. I am here to play for the others, but if I have to try and clinch a game, then I will.
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The burden of being a constant symbol, of having to live up to a symbol of advancement, of progress, of being perfect in some way and always representing the destiny of an entire people - that is supposed to be invincibility. That's enormous.
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Don't put off a job that has to be done until you feel like doing it. Do it and get it over with.
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Honestly, my goals shift and change, as I move along.
