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On staying in control of what's truly your own.
These quotes focus on ownership: your trust, your plans, your self-esteem, and how easily outside pressure can chip away at decisions that should belong to you alone. For more, see our Know quotes.
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The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.
If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.
If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
I didn't know how to do a press release, so I'd call the local Assembly member and say, 'Hey, can you fax me one of your press releases?' 'Which one?' 'Any one.'
After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.
If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have thought we would have an African-American president. They would have laughed in your face.
England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
