Simon Helberg (Simon Maxwell Helberg) Quotes
Working is a bonus; working on something you love is a bonus, and getting to do it for a long time is the ultimate.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Lyric writing is the hardest part. It requires some life to have been lived. You can't write a great song every day for the rest of your life, because you need to have life in between the songs. You have to have the drama and the thrills and the sadness in real time so that it informs your heart later.
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We've always been a prolific band. Writing good songs has never been a problem.
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Working is a bonus; working on something you love is a bonus, and getting to do it for a long time is the ultimate.
