Eric Ries Quotes
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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Good and bad - this is the story of my life.
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I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.
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We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
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You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected.
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My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.
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Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
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Once you get my snark going, I'll just start snarking it up all over Twitter.
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We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.
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If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
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The best investor is your customer.
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If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.
