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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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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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You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
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Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.
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Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
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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.
