Courtney B. Vance Quotes
The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.
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Life is about timing.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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The business of America is business.
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To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
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Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
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It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'
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You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
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The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.
