Evan Esar Quotes
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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Moralists have no place in an art gallery.
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One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.
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Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over .
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We just cracked. We had this game. We're not supposed to lose that one. I would rather get blown out.
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I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.
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It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.
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I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.
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Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
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It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.
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I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
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I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
