"Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me."
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"Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do."
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"I know Im not going to book everything I go in on, and thats just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybodys story is different."
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"No two directors make the same film the same way."
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"The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change."
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"Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that."
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"Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency."
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"If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike."
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"You can't shrink your way to greatness!"
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"If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?"
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"It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please."
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"One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it."
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"Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic."
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"I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read."
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"I've been broke more than I've been rich. I like being in the middle way better."
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"Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing."
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"The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way."
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"I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses."
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"For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days."
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"Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many."
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