Ed Koch Quotes
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
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To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
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The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
