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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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.
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My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.
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I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!
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There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
