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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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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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
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Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
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The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
