Jack Lemmon Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
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The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
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My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people: finding waste, or money that is not being properly used... or finding opportunities that are out there and making them work for the community.
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My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.
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General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
