Ben Zobrist Quotes
I was so engrossed in my sport, I wasn't thinking about the future from God's standpoint. I was thinking about just my sporting future.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
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Yes, I'm planning to go out again next summer, on concert tour, as a result of the success of the book and the CDs.
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Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.
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I think a lot of people go into filmmaking thinking, "How can I make a career?" And so when they make their first film, they make it thinking, "Well, this'll be the one that gets me to the place where I can make the second film the way I want to make it, and that'll get me to the place where I can make $100 million on the third film." And I thought, "Well, if I put sustainability at the bottom of my priority list, then what opportunities is that going to free me up to pursue?" And that's what I've always done.
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I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?
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I was so engrossed in my sport, I wasn't thinking about the future from God's standpoint. I was thinking about just my sporting future.
