Maynard Webb Quotes
There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.
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We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
