Zig Ziglar Quotes
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation.
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In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.
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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
