Barry Eisler Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
