Zig Ziglar Quotes
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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The one thing that I learned in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.
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Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.
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The idea of implanting memories where by the implantee couldn't tell the difference between a real experience and a fantasy experience was really cool. And his ideas of technology - do we control technology or does technology begin to control us? His work hasn't aged a day it seems.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
