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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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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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 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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I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.
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But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.
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My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.
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I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
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There are so many things that go into a surgical study.
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If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
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If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.
