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Sophia Amoruso Quotes

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: April 20, 1984

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Creativity Drive Important Equally

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Win You Lose Always Cheat Must

Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.

Job School I Am Me Back Street

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Work I Am Poetry Saying Better More

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

Money Fishing Fish Problem Farm You

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Life Experience Worth Little Own

When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.

Time Free Village Netflix Watching

John Woo is a very nice and kind person; he gives almost no direction at all, trusting me to come up with the character. But when I think of him, I think of explosions!

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Character Me Direction Think Person

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I Am I Can Accept Point Where Neat

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Good Down Movies Taste Some Quite

If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.

Colin Trevorrow

Hope People Me Story Thinking Plan

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

Peter Bogdanovich

Money Control Know Kind Actor Pay

I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.

Timothy J. Bartik

Childhood Research Strong Think

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