Charles Halford Quotes
When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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I dress for men.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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All my songs are where I am.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.
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Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
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Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?
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Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
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The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.
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The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one. Get past the product market fit, figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem. So scaling, one through N, is figuring out can you do that at scale and how big is the scale. And when people pay you more than what it costs for you to make it, does that equation end up leaving you with money left over, i.e. profits.
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A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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When fans love something, they care for it, and that's the hugest success that you can have, as a storyteller.
