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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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 just want to be rich and famous.
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I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
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At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be a black writer. I used to write 'Spider-Man,' 'Green Lantern,' whatever was lying around. 'Thor,' 'Hulk,' whatever. Now, if the phone rings or when the phone rings, it's almost exclusively some project that has something to do with my ethnicity.
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The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like - maybe just eating, hanging out and talking.
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I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I could be hurt.
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I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.
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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.
