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James Altucher Quotes

I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 23, 1968

Topics

Life I Am Mistake Happy My Life You

I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I've heard about our production of 'Boys' is that it's a bunch of white guys. Well, race is a component of this play. You can't just drop people in willy-nilly and say, 'Well, we're going for diversity.'

Responsibility Diversity People You

When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.

Jerry Weintraub

Work Mother Home Women Children Boy

The thing I'm most proud of is that I've raised a lot of money for certain charities - breast cancer and the Caldecott Foundation and the NSPCC. But as far as my self-esteem is concerned, doing 'The Graduate' for 11 months was fantastic.

Money Proud Foundation Doing Cancer

Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.

Make It Happen Interesting Doing Find

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Looking You Know See Like Recognize

My wife, she knows me better than anybody else. She knows what I'm struggling with, and she knows where I'm at. And I have friends, pastors, and it's good not to have my only friends be people who think I'm special. It's really good to have people who think I'm just an ordinary guy.

Good Wife People Me Think Better

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Shirley MacLaine

I Am My Own Through Own Used Been

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

Great Myself Lucky Lifetime Many

Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they're old and grizzled. I'm no stranger to that dynamic.

Power Hero Person Movies Old Spy

From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had a hard time reading and writing, so I thought that my self worth was in my looks, how I presented myself, and how other people perceived me.

Time Myself Beginning School People

It seems that 'rocket scientist' is a job category that's here for the long haul, like 'mortician.' But all this activity masks an important point: rockets are not a terribly efficient way to lift things into space.

Job Space Long Important Lift Way

At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.

Timothy Olyphant

Day Job Story Think End You

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