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Robert Greene
Age: 34 †
Born: 1558
Born: July 11
Died: 1592
Died: September 3
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Norwich
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Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.
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I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.
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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
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Lord, protect me from my friends I can take care of my enemies.
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A lot of people in college go astray because they choose something that doesn't really, really connect to them. And if it doesn't connect to you, you're not able to put in that 10,000 hours that people talk about. You don't have the focus. And you start off in life on the wrong foot and you never get back.
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If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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I am impressed when I go on the internet and see a lot of young people who've been influenced by the books, or I meet someone who tells me how it has changed their life. To me, that is much more real than sales figures.
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I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.
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It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.
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In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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For the future, the motto is, No days unalert.
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Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.
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If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going to love it but you can survive the boredom because you're connected to something that excites you.
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The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history-the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen
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There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we talk about the movie, it's kind of a mix between melodrama and cinéma vérité. This involves ideas about playing the role of yourself and the movie of your life and all these other things.
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When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.
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