George O. Wood Quotes
The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.
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To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.
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In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.
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It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.
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Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.
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The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.
