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 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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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I'm from the suburbs, really, so I actually didn't go to Montreal until I was, like, 19. I wasn't allowed to go to the city at night or really be in the scene with other producers. It was hard for my parents to understand what I was trying to do as an artist, but it didn't stop me. They eventually saw that it wasn't a joke.
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Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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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.
