E. B. White Quotes
The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
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People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
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Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet.
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I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
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As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.
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None of these challenges can be solved quickly or easily. But all of them demand that we listen to one another and work together; that we focus on our common interests, not on occasional differences; and that we reaffirm our shared values, which are stronger than any force that could drive us apart. That is the work that we must carry on.
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The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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I started seriously applying myself to writing fiction immediately after I finished graduate school. By 'seriously,' I mean that, instead of noodling along on a story, finishing it or not as the mood struck me, I set out to complete what I started, to polish it to the best of my ability, and to send out the finished story.
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Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.
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Comedy can take you a lot further in getting your point across. People are entertained, and then, by being entertained, they get your point.
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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.
