W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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When you get the opportunity to work with somebody like Jude Law, there is a fear. They've got lots of stuff under their belt.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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Men, dazed by pleasure, absent-mindedly sow their seed. Overcome by their orgasm, they fertilize us. They show up inside us and withdraw, leaving, concealed in our flesh, their ghost, like a lost object.
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Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating featured any black kids-except for token blacks in the background. My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along. Years before I had cut from a magazine a strip of photos of a little black boy. I often put them on my studio walls before I'd begun to illustrate children's books. I just loved looking at him. This was the child who would be the hero of my book.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
