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The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional -- the idea. That's what is original to you.


William Friedkin

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DEYTH BANGER What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL If you come out with an idea, people will say you are putting the cart before the horse. If you do a...
BILL BRAY The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON Romance is like having to go through security at airports in order to get on the plane.
BOBBY W. MILLER Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE It's always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see ...
CASEY WILSON The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Life is what you make of it.
You have to decide what you want in life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT Mind what you say when someone is listening
SOTONYE ANGA What well be trying to do against La Villa will be perfection. We want to perfect our plays and play...
HECTOR GARCIA You said that you are ill... but from from what?
DEYTH BANGER I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Happiness is not about what you do, it's about how you do what you do.
ROEL VAN SLEEUWEN Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can ...
ANNE RICE The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a...
MICHAEL POLLAN My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They...
DYLAN LAUREN Ongea unachoweza kutenda.
ENOCK MAREGESI You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
PABLO PICASSO “You can’t do what You ONLY never tried to do.”
MAGED MAHROUS Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.
KEVIN SYSTROM Any good idea without action is just another idea in your head. Take action or you will never know t...
EDWARD SQUIRE What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
CRAIG GROESCHEL there is a huge difference between giving what you get and getting what you give
REZA FARIVAR Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
DAMIEN RICE "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu...
SIMCHA GLUCK Kids start working and they don't know what to wear, ... You want to get away from the school-sloppy...
BARBARA KELLY i can go on all day pretending to be happy an fooling the world and leave you wondiring when im gone...
AMBER FAITH HUN No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
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DOUG FOX The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely d...
JOHN CLEESE Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.
DYLAN LAUREN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
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MAHERSHALA ALI All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.
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HARRY YOU What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA People are afraid of what exist in the dark and thats only truth
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE