Anthony Robbins Quotes
Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.
