Neil Simon Quotes
Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
Quotes to Explore
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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I would kiss you, had I the courage.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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For the rain it raineth every day.
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Gary Cooper turned out to be the surprise of my young life. He was so convincing with his stuttering, stammering awkward little boy manners. When the action called for Dr. Wassell to kiss me, I got all set for a bashful boy kiss. Well, it was like holding a hand grenade and not being able to get rid of it! I was left breathless.
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New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
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When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.
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Every man should see the birth of his children.
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When I really started just giving them the truth of who I was, that's when my fan base really started to grow.
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I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.
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After I became confident in Him it didn't matter what anyone said because I was confident in something and someone way bigger than myself.
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I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
