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Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.


Michael Morpurgo

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KENNETH REXROTH I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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CHRIS MATTHEWS I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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DUSTIN DIAMOND I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
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DAN FOGLER I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
KARL PILKINGTON If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.
JEFF BEZOS We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television ...
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BILL KRUEGER Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ...
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QUENTIN BLAKE I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or do...
ELLEN POMPEO Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.
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MATTHEW MCGRORY I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot,...
LOUIS THEROUX You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried ...
CALVIN KLEIN I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead...
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We do...
DAVID AXELROD I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I...
DAN STEVENS I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, wh...
JOSS WHEDON I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it b...
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DAVID RUBENSTEIN I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an inte...
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ANDREW LUCK You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't...
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JOHN FRUSCIANTE It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don...
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AL FRANKEN I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy somet...
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MICHAEL BERGIN Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of ge...
MICHAEL POLLAN Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. ...
MICHAEL GREGER I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo...
MICHAEL BOND I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in...
MICHAEL STRAHAN Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills,...
MICHAEL MOSS I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
MICHAEL GOVE I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front li...
MICHAEL CONNELLY I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a sy...
MICHAEL PHELPS Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...
MICHAEL MOORE Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel exclude...
MICHAEL MEDVED One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if...
MICHAEL KORDA Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionall...
MICHAEL DIRDA The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. ...
MICHAEL WEATHERLY All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the re...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf w...
MICHAEL GREGER Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.
MICHAEL EKLUND I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like...
MICHAEL SYMON Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now ...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF In early 2005, I really studied the prospectuses of these mortgage pools that were tranched out into...
MICHAEL BURRY Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with ...
MICHAEL JOHNSON The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and...
MICHAEL LEUNIG I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's w...
MICHAEL LEARNED I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they marr...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF If you're going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the ...
MICHAEL FROME I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.
MICHAEL MINA I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and th...
MICHAEL PORTER The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
MICHAEL GERBER A lot of people have experimented with hidden cameras and magic before. What I do, which I think is ...
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