Charles Duhigg Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.
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I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
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It's very hard to cheaply build anything significant in a multi-platform, mobile world.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
