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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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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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
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I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.
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There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
