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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To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.
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I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.
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Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
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It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.
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There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
