Evan Esar Quotes
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
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I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.
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It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.
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I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.
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I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.
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If I can wheedle
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Yeah, I know my way around some guns, which is weird because I have no time for them. I don't like them at all but I can take apart guns and put them back together and stuff, so I didn't have to go to the range. I don't think I will ever to go 'the range' again! I've done enough of that.
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Big government makes small citizens.
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To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.
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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.
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Many of them have started selling their cattle crop to buy hay. If they're selling them to buy hay, they're not able to pay their other expenses.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.
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Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.