Robin S. Sharma Quotes

The difference between a remarkable life and a mediocre one is not nearly as large as you might imagine. Nope, we all pretty much start out with the same raw stuff.

Robin S. Sharma

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LifeStartYouDifferenceSameOut

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Jo Nesbo

IdeasConstructionStartWritePlot

I'm really low maintenance for a girl. I pretty much shower, attempt to fix my hair, throw on some mineral make up, and go.

Johanna Braddy

GirlHairGoMaintenanceFixShower

I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?

Jesse Kellerman

MeThinkTryingWhyIntroduction

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

Jenji Kohan

SmartMeComedyDramaNowMore

When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

Andrew Lau

LovePushLoseGoWantMood

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Anatole France

LifeTruthSweetTruth IsEverything

When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they've learnt from it, it's sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

SchoolPeopleHigh SchoolEndYear

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

John Updike

EyesEnjoyLandscapeGrassBallHe

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

Robert Fitzgerald

GuitarTraditionMeant To BeKind

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.

Robin Williams

PeopleMeEvilFamousSomeoneBad

I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.

Mitch Kapor

HistoryPeopleKindPossibleTell

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?

Judy Blume

ProtectUpCancerAgainstVaccine

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