Lee Tamahori Quotes
Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.
Lee Tamahori
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
Gary Gygax
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
Aaron Levie
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
Dan Quayle
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
Naftali Bennett
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
Kate Moss
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
Barry Ritholtz
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
Aaron Sanchez
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
Karl Pilkington
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I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
Mark Spitz
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Alternatives to gold and currency and to make a big speculative vehicle - I never considered for one second having anything to do with it. I detested it the minute it had been raised.
Charlie Munger
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
Sam Brownback
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
Karen DeCrow
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The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
Mark Billingham
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Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.
Lee Tamahori
