Carl Reiner Quotes
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
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'Listen,' she said. 'I get off in an hour. Sit in the back. I'll see you then.' As though they'd agreed to this a long time ago. That was the sign, he was as yet unused to noticing it but he was learning: that sensation that the future has already happened and is only bringing itself about in staging these present moments.
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The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
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I want to inspire people.
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I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'
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You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
