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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I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
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I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.
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We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
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The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
