Fred Silverman Quotes
You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.
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Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.
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People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
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Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
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I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.
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You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
