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John Gurnick

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"Things that never happened before happen all the time." - Scott Sagan - Stanford University

Portland, Oregon Katılım Mayıs 2009
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John Gurnick
John Gurnick@gurnick·
@awfulannouncing "The names are just laid out terribly. And frankly, it drives me nuts.” - That seems like a very short drive.
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Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing·
"The distance between letters, like, the font, right?"
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Billy Oppenheimer
Billy Oppenheimer@bpoppenheimer·
In 1975, Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for "Rocky." He shopped the script to every producer and studio in Hollywood, but he was repeatedly rejected. Eventually, one production company, Chartoff-Winkler Productions, expressed interest. But there was one condition... They didn't want Stallone to play Rocky. They wanted a "more marketable actor" for the leading role. In fact, they were so desperate for Stallone to *not* play Rocky that they kept offering him increasingly large sums of money to go away. "It went up to $360,000," Stallone said, "to go away, to 'get off my lawn boy.'" Stallone didn't take the money for 2 reasons: 1) “I had learned to manage on very little money,” Stallone said. “I had it down to a science. I really didn't need much to live on.” “But more than that...” 2) “There was something about the idea of unrealized dreams,” Stallone said. “I knew that if I sold the script—even for $500,000—I knew that after the money was gone, I would have become very bitter if I never realized my dream.” Takeaway 1: “The trick is,” Tom Rothman (CEO of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group) says, “to be fiscally responsible so you can be creatively reckless.” Hollywood is a ruthless business. If Rocky failed, that likely would have been the end of Stallone’s acting career. But because he had his fiscal responsibilities down to a science, Stallone could make the reckless decision to turn down the money and gamble his career on Rocky. Takeaway 2: Stallone turned down the money because he feared the bitter person he would have become if he never went for his dream. The screenwriter Brian Koppelman (Rounders, Ocean's Thirteen, Billions, etc.) talks about why, after many years of putting it off, he finally started writing: “What I finally realized was that if I allowed these creative impulses to die, it would be like a real death, and like any form of death, it would be toxic and this toxicity would ooze out of me onto everyone and everything.” - - - "If you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do, kid…Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty, freedom is the most expensive.” — Bill Cunningham Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!
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Stuff_By_Mark
Stuff_By_Mark@The_Ren1981·
Talking Heads’ Burning Down The House in the style of an old Saul Bass-esque mid century film poster.
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James Clear
James Clear@JamesClear·
What is one habit you've formed that had a significant impact on your life?
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Super 70s Sports@Super70sSports·
What’s the best sports nickname ever?
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Ramit Sethi@ramit·
What's something you happily paid over $1,000 for? What made you so happy to spend money on it?
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James Clear
James Clear@JamesClear·
I want to go somewhere where: 1) I can stay directly on the beach (no crossing roads, straight onto the sand) 2) I can walk to 10+ great restaurants (don't care about fancy, just great food) 3) Is relaxing and quiet (minimal road noise, etc) Needs all 3. Where should I go?
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John Gurnick
John Gurnick@gurnick·
People have the power! #twowheelsgood
Sam Balto@CoachBalto

@BikePortland Its so wild for people with billion dollar budgets to say that they can't do anything to change how people travel and here I am a PE teacher going from 1% to 33% of my students biking to school in 3 months with a $500 grant from Metro SRTS.

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