Maynard Webb Quotes
When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Smoke machines are the best!
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Sticking with your craft goes a long way in ensuring that you'll be successful.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.
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I need the applause.
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When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.
