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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
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it's good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scene by scene, you can't help being impressed by 'Mean Girls;' it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with some playing much better than others.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is unavailable because of contractual disputes, it's hard to do better than Johnny Depp.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before 'Idol,' I was lost... Now, I've actually followed through with something. I am a better man for it!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me it was always about enjoying what I was doing and trying to get better, playing more and more sport.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020