Laurence Sterne Quotes
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.
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The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.
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You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.
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My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.
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I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.
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Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.
