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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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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I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.
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My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.
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On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.
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Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
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He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
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If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.
