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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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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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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You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
