Peter Diamandis Quotes

When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.

Peter Diamandis

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I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.

Joe Flanigan

FunNew YorkCityMeDoorActing

When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.

Andris Nelsons

CompanyEveryoneSurvivingGoes

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

Meg Rosoff

WorkMindWritingDeepDoingYou

I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun.

John Krasinski

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You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

Martin Scorsese

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Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.

Michael Rosenbaum

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As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

Monique Coleman

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Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

Lisa See

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After 'Place Beyond the Pines,' honestly, I was sick of myself. Sick of my own ideas. I wanted to do an adaptation, but everything I'd been reading, I just didn't understand it.

Derek Cianfrance

MyselfIdeasSickReadingPlaceOwn

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

Winnie Holzman

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I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

Pete Sampras

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The only time I don't get nervous is if I'm doing a home club in L.A. and I know all of my friends there because then I play to my friends. When I first started doing comedy, I hated it when my friends came; it made me more nervous. Now I just try to make them laugh.

Retta

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