Harold Ramis Quotes
The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
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Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.
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Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
