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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I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.
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When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect - basically, a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.
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You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
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I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.
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When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
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If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.
