Harold Ramis Quotes
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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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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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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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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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
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Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
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Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
