Evan Esar Quotes
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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I love doing kids' films.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.
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Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
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Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.
