William DeWitt Hyde Quotes
Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.
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As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
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Eddie George was outstanding early.
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Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.
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Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.
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Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
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I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.
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I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.
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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
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On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
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On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.
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Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.
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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose.
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The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.
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So far, the effects appear to be relatively modest on growth.
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One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
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Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.
