Marc Newson Quotes
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
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"No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest - which is kind of the point of these reports - I was already unzipping his pants.
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Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
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People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well.
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My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.
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You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
