Om Malik Quotes
The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
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I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.
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The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.
