Joe Theismann Quotes
I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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'I’ll survive,' Floyd said. 'I’m a private detective. If I don’t get clouted on the head at least once a week, I’m not doing my job properly.'
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Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?
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Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.
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When it comes down to it, it's all about good music and what makes people react. That wins over everything else.
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For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart, And makes his pulses fly,To catch the thrill of a happy voice And the light of a pleasant eye.
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I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.
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My father is an amazing person.
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I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.
