Evan Esar Quotes
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.
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Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά.
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For the first time in history, drug addicts and drunks—once viewed as human wreckage that drained families and society of resources—had become valuable properties. People could make fortunes off them.
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It's really empowering to have curly hair.
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In the electric age, when our central nervous system is technologically extended to involve us in the whole of mankind and to incorporate the whole of mankind in us, we necessarily participate, in depth, in the consequences of our every action. It is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and dissociated role of the literate Westerner. (p. 4)
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The law of tithing is one of the most important ever revealed to man. . . . Through obeying this law the blessings of prosperity and success will be given to the Saints.
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Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.
