Edwin Lefevre Quotes
A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at this game.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,' she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
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I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
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Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
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I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.
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And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.
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I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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Many of our television hosts are modern-day carnival barkers. We get dopamine, adrenalin, and oxytocin all at once. It's an adult video game. But instead of expertly separating us from our wallets, they're separating us from things much more valuable. Our time, our sense of perspective, and our judgment. And they are separating us from each other.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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A man must believe in himself and his judgment if he expects to make a living at this game.
