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"I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby."
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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

"Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever."

"That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you."
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"The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt."

"So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks."

"But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could."

"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12."

"I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby."
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