Dorothy Fields Quotes
If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
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Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
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Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.
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I've decided to stick with love.
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Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
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Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.
