Isaac Asimov Quotes
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a new contract' - they don't have a great season because they're thinking about all these different things. Do your business on the field, and everything takes care of itself.
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So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
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Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.
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I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
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Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
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I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
