Jerry Stiller Quotes
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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I've always loved fashion.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
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I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).
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pp. 56–57
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.
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Race doesn't matter to the people who are violating our constitutional principles, but they make it matter to keep us divided.
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I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.
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One of the things polio does is it takes away your energy. They don't know very much about it. They should be a lot more aware of what polio is.
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We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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People don't listen to marketplace logic; they listen for meaning and purpose. Attention can't be bought. Before any interaction, ask yourself: 'How do I want to make people feel or act?' Put yourself in their shoes. The role of a leader is to create an experience that will inspire people to take action.
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I have always believed in quality work.
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Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.
