- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better Quotes
On growth, progress and making things better.
These quotes range from finishing a piece of writing that finally feels worth sharing to teamwork producing stronger results than working alone, with a side note on technology's uneven effect on security. For more, see our Growth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Assumes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think it's getting better, but I have noticed that Asians are not well represented in awards shows, and not a ton of Asian faces on the big screen either. Perhaps some of the young Asian actors who are on TV series now will be seen in upcoming movies in the near future - Jamie Chung, Constance Wu, Suzy Nakamura, to name a few. Fingers crossed.
- Francis
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when you let people who are so talented at improv go, what you're going to get. You don't want to strangle them with your own words, because probably what they're going to say is way better.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
- Eras
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. In America, possibly because of whatever the American dream is, this happens over and over again. These eras repeat.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started out wrestling in front of 100 people, I thought, 'Chelsea, you're better than this. You should be working in front of thousands!' But I was crazy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020