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 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 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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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figuratives or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.
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On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.
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They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
