Joe Eszterhas Quotes
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
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The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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I'm a nudist at heart.
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I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
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There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.
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No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.
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I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.
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The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.
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To sense the invisible and to be able to create it - that is art.
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I tell myself that anyone who says he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. Finished means complete, perfect, and I toil away without making any progress, searching, fumbling around, without achieving anything much.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
