Zig Ziglar Quotes
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
