Alison Prince

Loving caring kind

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@ReasonableCop Beauty is only skin deep. It is what is the heart that matters.

[Home Office @ukhomeoffice]

From today, care workers entering the UK on Health and Care Worker visas can no longer bring dependants.

This is part of our plan to deliver the biggest ever cut in migration.

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@ukhomeoffice That is only right that they should not be allowed to bring their families. Our own people should come first

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@OscarRomeo1268 I know that we have never met but I do care. I lost my mum back in 2002 so I understand how you feel. I am glad you received it okay xxx

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@bs_pearson @1965Ptsd 💖💖💖💖💖

[David Minto @174DM]

@OscarRomeo1268 💙😢

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@OscarRomeo1268 My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this sad Paul. There is so much love for you out there. Love & hugs 💖💖

[Paul Cording @OscarRomeo1268]

Heartbroken💔 This morning my beautiful mum gained her angel wings peacefully in her sleep👼🌈

My heart is aching right now but I’m taking strength from the many messages of support from family & friends to keep me strong.

Sleep well mum, I love you💙🙏🥲

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@bs_pearson @LEGO_Group @Ford Lovely photo of you Ben. Hope your back gets better soon 💖💖💖

[Anthony Joynes @joynes85]

Managed to rescue this chap today after he'd managed to get himself locked inside an empty property after a broken door had been secured. Luckily he'd been spotted sat in the front window by a passerby. Hes lost a bit of weight but is otherwise fine & has gone home 👍

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@joynes85 Well done to who ever spotted him.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

As he was struggling to break into Hollywood, Matt Damon read about how Quentin Tarantino did it:

Essentially, he got a big-name actor (Harvey Keitel) to want to star in Tarantino’s first movie (Reservoir Dogs) then leveraged that to get the movie funded.

“And so,” Damon said,

“We wrote ‘Good Will Hunting’ and that part that Robin [Williams] eventually took—we called it ‘the Harvey Keitel part.’”

“Ben [Affleck] and I wrote the movie specifically because we wanted the parts as actors…But we knew [we needed] a big-name actor who could get us some money because Ben and I were worth nothing.

And so we wrote ‘the Harvey Keitel part’ really open-ended. So we could adjust it: if Morgan Freeman or Denzel Washington wanted to come in and play it—we could make that character from Roxbury [a neighborhood in Boston], and we could explore the historic racial tension in Boston. If Meryl Streep took the part—instead of a father-son relationship, we could make it a mother-son relationship.

So we really left it open-ended because we wanted to cast as wide a net as possible because we were just trying to get the movie made.”

“And then once we got Robin to sign up to do it, that’s really what got us a green light to make it…He changed our lives.”

Takeaway 1:

In one of my favorite talks, "Runnin' Down A Dream," the venture capitalist Bill Gurley explains that while studying the career trajectories of three of his heroes—the restauranteur Danny Meyer, the coach Bobby Knight, and the musician Bob Dylan—he noticed a pattern:

They studied the career trajectories of the icons in their respective industries. Like Damon, they studied how others successfully got their foot in the door then climbed to top of their profession. And then, they took similar steps towards doing the same.

Coincidentally, Tarantino did this too. He made scrap books for each of his favorite filmmakers: Brian De Palma, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, and Martin Scorsese. "I was like a film historian," Tarantino said. "I was obsessed with studying how they did it, the evolution of their careers."

"Greatness isn't random," as Gurley puts it. Instead, it's usually a predictable step along a studied path of strategically modified emulation and, of course, determination.

Takeaway 2:

In the clip above, Damon goes on to explain that, not only did Robin Williams sign on to be in "Good Will Hunting," he also went off script and improvised one of the most iconic lines ("Son of a bitch, he stole my line") in the movie.

It reminded me of something Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull writes in his book, Creativity. Inc.:

"Getting the right people is more important than getting the right idea…If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better."

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“Bob Dylan said, 'I'm a musical expeditionary.' I looked up 'expeditionary'—it's to travel for scientific research or exploration. And that's what Dylan did...For hours upon hours upon hours, he studied what other artists did. He was a mimic. He was studying, studying, studying.” — Bill Gurley

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[Paul Cording @OscarRomeo1268]

Raising a glass to my beautiful nana who gained her angel wings last night. Sleep tight and thank you for being the most amazing role model💙

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@OscarRomeo1268 May she rest in peace. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this sad time. Love & hugs to you and your family Paul. You are well thought of xxxx💖💖💖💖

[Warrington Wolves @WarringtonRLFC]

The Club is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former player Henry Delooze.

Our thoughts are with Henry's family at this difficult time 💙

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@WarringtonRLFC May he rest in peace. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this sad time xxxx 💖 💖 💖

[Alison Prince @AlisonP47597376]

@DerbysPolice I hope you catch them. I hate violence at sports event.

[West Yorkshire Police @WestYorksPolice]

West Yorkshire Police is aware of footage circulating on social media around some disorder on Third Avenue, Rothwell on Sunday (22/10) afternoon.

The matter is being investigated and body worn footage currently being reviewed.