Leigh Steinberg Quotes
School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.
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It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
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I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
