Mehmet Oz Quotes
I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
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But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
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Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
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My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
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I've never been a great one for technology.
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What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.
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In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.
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...the Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.
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One bad general is worth two good ones.
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Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.
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What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.
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Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.
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I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.
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I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
