Vernon Howard Quotes
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
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The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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My mind can't always be on fighting.
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Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
