Evan Esar Quotes
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
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I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Life isn't a cabaret. It's a dive bar.
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If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
