Maury Yeston Quotes
What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile.
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.
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I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.
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Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members.
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What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.
