D. B. Sweeney Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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You are just your intelligence.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
