Ernie Kovacs Quotes
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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From old Belerium to the northern main.
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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My court skills may have atrophied.
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I use what God had given me. I don't wish for anything else. I don't wish I can be a high-flier.
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A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
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It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
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Too many people go into existing organizations and define success as recreating what is there. To be successful as a startup organization within a large, established culture, you really need to think about how you leverage the assets that are there.
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Touring is not easy, as you always have a certain yearning for home no matter how beautiful the location you are in, but I have pushed myself to the limits and am certainly more aware of myself as a result.
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Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.
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Beat it to death if it succeeds.
