George Combe Quotes
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
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I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
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I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.
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How can you lose when you're doing you?
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Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire.
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I love the dancers in the Bolshoi, but all of my Moscow friends are outside the company. A friend introduced me to Vika Gazinskaya, a well-known Russian designer. I met her group. The rest is history.
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There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.
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From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.
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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
