George M. Humphrey Quotes
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
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Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them.
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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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Good service means never having to ask for anything.
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When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.
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Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.
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I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.
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It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
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I think, at some point, all of us - I'm gonna speak personally, not for everybody else - you're gonna feel like a one-trick pony, and you might even be a one-trick pony. But at some point, if it's a really good trick, everybody's still gonna appreciate it.
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The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.
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I'm friends with everybody. I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me a reason not to.
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Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
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Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.
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If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.
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I was never exposed to art school. I grew up in an artist's studio. I was exposed a lot of studio time between of my father and a great painter I studied with in Barcelona. That was my art school, as Europe was.
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I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.
