Jack Canfield Quotes
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I've learned how to make a nice souffle, a little mac and cheese.
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I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.
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I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way, you have certain blind spots to the things going on in your culture. There is an illumination the outsider brings to a place or a situation that cannot be duplicated.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
