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“I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.”

People Real Levels Communication Hero Worship Relate Conventions Hero Worship

Author:Alan Moore

“I think the closest thing I can come to defining what that vital thing is for me - is that there's a sort of soul-quality in writing, if it's any good. It has a spirit or an energy to it that is very integral to who the writer is on a deep level. It's almost a cellular thing. It takes place in the cells of the writing, and it is what makes it alive or not.”

Ifs Thinking Writing I Can Soul Spirit Energy Levels Quality Alive Cells Closest Defining Cellular

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.”

People World Years Humor Funny Levels Rooms Comedy Mines Seven Footballer Scottish

Author:Frankie Boyle

“I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.”

Thinking Reason Humor Funny Jesus Levels Careers Died

Author:Marc Maron

“Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.”

People Book Ends Levels Careers Novel Example Technique Setting Settings Metaphorical

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“When you want your body to perform at a high level, it's important to make sure you are giving your body quality nutrients.”

Want Giving Important Body Levels Quality Your Body High Level Nutrients

Author:Travis Browne

“Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it to be in a certain way. It's a mighty play. It's about a very old king who also happens to be a very old father, so you've got the state and the domestic levels in there together. It's a story in extremis. Everyone knows the end, there's only two people left alive.”

People Knows Way Two Ends States Play Stories Happens Together Certain Father Left Levels Alive Century Kings Built Classic

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my level get to go to the next level after that. I think it is the songs that can take you there.”

People Thinking Knows Song Next Levels Know How Next Level

Author:Tyler Hilton

“I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.”

Knows Whole Felt Levels Growing Up Growing Talent Car Theater Musical Whole Life Showers Chuck Knack Musical Theater

Author:Zachary Levi

“Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!”

Ifs Wells Humor Kids Funny Levels Minutes Dad Easier Fifty Your Dad

Author:Russell Howard

“I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.”

People Enough Levels Leader Saws Too Much Projects Agree Strategy Initiative Execution Emphasis High Level Implementation

Author:Lawrence Bossidy

“The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.”

Levels Focus Pieces Intense Intensity Execution

Author:Sam Altman

“It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.”

People Needs Difficult Levels Successful Focus Groups Extremes Productivity Being Successful Large Groups

Author:Sam Altman

“The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.”

Giving Levels Giving Up Founders

Author:Sam Altman

“Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.”

People Decision Levels Tools Fidelity

Author:Keith Rabois

“While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Long Stills Hands Law Levels Attitude Rights Changed Goes On Easier Obvious Civil Rights Mentality Long Way Way Of Thinking Things Have Changed Long Way To Go

Author:Dacia Maraini

“Many people look at successful entrepreneurs and think it's easy to get where they are at, but it really isn't. Many entrepreneurs work 16-18 hour days and thus have been able to achieve their high levels of success.”

People Thinking Looks Has Beens Able Easy Hours Levels Successful Achieve Entrepreneur High Level Easy To Get Successful Entrepreneurs

Author:Jeet Banerjee

“The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.”

Passion Next Sports Difficult Can Do Levels And Love Best Things Riding Next Level

Author:Mark McMorris

“One of the reasons I love using LEGO bricks is because it makes the art very relatable and accessible; folks can connect with the art almost on a different level because they have played with it or their kids have played with it.”

Art Different Reason Kids Levels Folks Bricks Relatable Different Levels Legos

Author:Nathan Sawaya

“Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.”

Thinking Art Levels Music Is Art Is Great Art

Author:Joel Plaskett

“Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.”

Law Individual Levels Focus Failing Conditions Racism Intention Population Reform Proven Bad Intentions

Author:Dean Spade

“Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea level will flood islands and coastal areas. Or, we're talking about new opportunities like a new shipping lane in the Arctic because of melting sea ice. These may be the obvious problems, but they're probably not the biggest ones.”

“What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.”

Humans Faces Dies Challenges Decision Levels Moral Aspiration Hopeful Refusal Moral Decisions

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“If you're eating sugar throughout the day, you're spiking your blood sugar level and you're becoming a fat storing machine.”

Ifs Levels Blood Becoming Eating Machines Fats Sugar Blood Sugar

Author:Jackie Warner

“On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.”

Thinking Knows Want I Can Hard Levels Impossible Picks Cameras Practicals Wander

Author:Bill Henson

“I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.”

Ifs Mind Running Enjoy Levels Race Imagine Anxiety Training Enjoyed Racing High Level

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“The last thing I want to do is hurt the club's chances of winning. I'm used to playing the game a certain way and at a certain level. When I can no longer do that, I'll quit.”

Way Want I Can Lasts Used Certain Games Winning Hurt Chance Levels Clubs Quitting

Author:Chipper Jones

“I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I sense that poetry happens at a level above or below intelligence. It doesn't come into being at a purely rational level.”

Needs Feels Happens Space Levels Meditation Rational Links Reverie Subliminal

Author:Michael Longley

“For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.”

Form Levels Shapes Originals Proof Versions Greek Engaged Latin Exploration Endorsements

Author:Michael Longley

“Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.”

People Levels Emotional Type Wide Range Astronaut

Author:Julie Payette

“It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.”

People Thinking America Opportunity Understanding Black White Levels Mistake Talent Sexuality Equations Black America

Author:Viola Davis

“As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling.”

Mind Humans Ideas Different Matter Understanding Levels Complexes Mind Boggling

Author:Matthew Carter

“The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.”

People Want Black Levels Successful Racism Hollywood Being Successful Internals Executives Sexism Formulas Black People Womanhood Skinny Plugs

Author:Viola Davis

“For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.”

Ifs Writing Stills Shows Levels Creative Television Offers Direct Comedian Fulfillment Television Shows Allure Stand Up Comedian

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.”

Ifs Knows Years May Political Choices Politics Left Levels Periods Accounts Neighbor Tyranny Rulers Liable Annuals Magistrates Usurpation Misconduct

Author:Clinton Rossiter

“What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.”

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“It's difficult for them to do a deal at these levels.”

Motivational Difficult Levels Deals

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“Production cutbacks have remained in place in the third quarter and this has helped to further reduce inventory levels worldwide.”

Motivational Levels Thirds Productions Quarters Inventory Cutbacks

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?”

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Author:James C. Collins

“If you want to be a chef or a scientist, you've got to know what the current thinking is, so if you want to write comics or draw comics find out what the very best ones are and look at them all and then you'll know where the bars are because the bars are often very high, if you are going to make a splash and make yourself known, you need to get to that level.”

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Author:Dave McKean

“I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.”

Littles Made Next Levels Focus Mystery Labor Made It Precision Artwork Next Level

Author:Jacob Hashimoto

“The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.”

Book Asks Given Levels Worry Nice Programming Shelves Nice Things Syntax Not Worrying

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.”

Thinking Important Sometimes Loses Levels Sight Sentences Accurate Paragraph

Author:Ann Goldstein

“It is not always easy for a young player to come through at the club level, because all the clubs are able to buy for 20 million or 30 million and it is hard for young English talent to come through and to get recognition and be able to be part of the squad or start playing.”

Hard Able Young Easy Levels Millions Player Talent Clubs Recognition Squad

Author:Edwin van der Sar

“I'm a guy who has always been a late bloomer on every level. I've always wanted to get into the league as a kid. Who would have thought during my senior year at college that I would be where I am now? It's been a lot of hard work and never stopping.”

Years Hard Would Be Kids Wanted Guy Levels College Hard Work Late League Senior Stopping Senior Year Never Stopping

Author:Kevin Martin

“Everybody dismissed athletes as being purely physical, but when you retire, you go from such an intense brain time - study of defense, audibles, hand signals, plays, adjustments - to a level of mental inactivity that's hard to comprehend. It's a big reason why I stay so active. Creating, evolving.”

Hard Reason Play Hands Bigs Levels Brain Study Creating Athlete Active Defense Intense Evolve Reason Why Retiring Signals Adjustment Inactivity

Author:Thomas Jones

“I've always been fortunate in that I'm quite good at what I do, but there have been many people who have made it to the high level and they weren't necessarily the fastest runner in their class at school. Concentrate on yourself. It's down to planning, preparation and being dedicated.”

People Has Beens Made School Levels Class Planning Made It Preparation Fortunate Dedicated Runners High Level

Author:Jenny Meadows

“The only advice I could give is to stay positive and focused in terms of what your goals are, and stick to them. If you can't attain those goals, maybe they're not realistic. At this level only a small percentage of players make it, so you've really got to strive to get what you want.”

Ifs Want Giving Goal Term Levels Player Advice Sticks Strive Focused What You Want Realistic Percentages Stay Positive

Author:Filo Tiatia

“Always have a plan B and C, because if it doesn't work out there are other things you can focus on. It's important to have a balance to your life, regardless of what you're doing. I've been playing at this level for a long time, but I've got interests outside of rugby, like my family and my children. They keep me sane.”

Ifs Children Long Important Interest Levels Focus Plans Balance Long Time My Family Work Out My Children Sane Rugby Plan B

Author:Filo Tiatia

“We've all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you so far. The great players go away and work on extra things. They work harder on their skills, they start having early nights and they think about their diet and training. That is what takes them to the next level.”

Thinking Young Night Certain Next Levels Player Talent Hard Work Skills Training Harder Diets Extras Going Away Work Harder Next Level

Author:Warren Gatland

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