Ed Asner Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.
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We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
