Neil Kurshan Quotes
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.

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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.
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What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.
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I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away. Of course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.
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Honestly, I was so happy for Bruce because I loved Bruce... and Bruce felt like my brother. You know, I wanted him to be OK, and I was just thrilled he'd found someone who had four children and someone who understood what it was like to be a parent - you know, just to have that great family life again.
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Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.