Fred Willard Quotes
As an actor, and as you get to a certain level... and it's pilot season and you read the trades, you could have a nervous breakdown. 'So-and-so's signed for a pilot. Why aren't I?'
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.
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Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.
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I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
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Our first No. 1 was 'Why' and we waited two years to have another one. It felt like forever, and now I feel like I'm celebrating one every few months, which I love
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Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.
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As an actor, and as you get to a certain level... and it's pilot season and you read the trades, you could have a nervous breakdown. 'So-and-so's signed for a pilot. Why aren't I?'
