Edward Zander Quotes
The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really, really going well, that's the time to change.
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
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The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really, really going well, that's the time to change.
