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 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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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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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 find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
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If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.
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Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.
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Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
