Brian Tracy Quotes
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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By attending to the conscious part of ourselves, we contribute to the peace of others as well as ourselves.
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When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming.
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When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.
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Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.
