Ed Asner Quotes
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
