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Dean Winters Quotes

On a show like 'Oz,' I was wearing Dickies and a cut-off shirt and a gold cross.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: July 20, 1964

Topics

Gold Shirt Show Like Cross Wearing

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.

Art People Me Alive Important Lived

I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.

College Research Believe Learn Trips

I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.

Matt Cartwright

Stars Waiting Door Thought Political

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Good Weather Bad Bad Weather Kinds

A lot of problems stem from a desire to avoid discomfort. For example, people who fear failure often avoid new challenges in an effort to keep anxiety at bay. Avoiding emotional discomfort, however, is usually a short-term solution that leads to long-term problems.

Failure Fear Effort People Problems

I saw 'The Shining' really young. I don't think it scarred me, but I had a paper route, and I delivered to some apartment buildings, and it made it a little scary to walk down those hallways.

Walk Me Think Buildings Down Young

Sometimes we just sit around and sit on our hands and don't do anything because it's like, 'Hey, that's not my problem.' You can't do that when you're a superhero.

Problem Hands You Sometimes Anything

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

People Eye Sorry Feel Public

I guess, as a reporter, I always thought that my biggest strength was that I could get anybody to talk to me. I wasn't the best writer, but I could get people to talk to me.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Strength Best People Me Thought Get

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

Douglas Rushkoff

Computers Adapt Ability Brains Just

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

Will Listen Anything Just Books

As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives.

Clemantine Wamariya

Life Strength Child Sister Control

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