Mark Twain Quotes
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff over here at your hometown Cavaliers have not betrayed you nor never will betray you.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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I felt at some times Kobe might have taken advantage of our flexibility.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
