Brian Tracy Quotes
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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It's a crazy experience for me to be in a Foo Fighters video.
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How proud upon your quarterdeck you stand,Conductor, Captain of the mighty bus!Like some Columbus you survey the Strand,A calm newcomer in a sea of fuss.
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A series of congratulatory regrets.
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I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
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My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.
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A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
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Fashion photographers are the new painters.
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I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
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Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.
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At that time the African American community was not a large reading community. They learned from observation and participation. So we had a lot of visuals that they could identify with. Photographs and short captions, as opposed to long, drawn-out essays and editorials. They were visual interpretations of the conditions people lived in. Inner cities, poor communities. Combined with revolutionary imagery. The people saw themselves in the artwork. They became the heroes. They could see their uncles in it. They could see their fathers or their brothers and sisters in the art.
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Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.
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What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
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How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
