Barry Eisler Quotes
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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I think it is very important for all actors to complete their studies side by side.
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When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.
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We find that no matter what country we're in, if we hit the right economic notes and appeal to the mass market, we're able to build the business very, very rapidly.
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I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
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I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.
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The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
