Maynard Webb Quotes
There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
Quotes to Explore
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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 is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
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At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!
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There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
