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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I wish I was told to look after my teeth when I was younger. My smile is really important to me and one of my biggest assets, so I'm very conscious that I need to keep it in top condition.
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She's going to do what her donors want. That's who Nancy Pelosi is. Not remotely progressive.
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When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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I went to private school for a very long time, and we always wore uniforms. Then in third grade, I switched to a public school, so I was so excited to wear what I wanted on the first day. I remember I chose this orange hoodie with a skirt, and it's so funny when I think about it now because my style really hasn't changed that much.
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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.
