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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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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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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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
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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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Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.
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Love is intense, and sadness is intense.
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I want to live a very positive and optimistic life that has a wonderful outlook on the future and the impact that I will have on the world and the people around me.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
