Sam Simon Quotes
I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
Quotes to Explore
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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So those of you listeners who don't want to hear what the weather will be like in six months time... look away now.
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Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue-eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, and practically every monarch or minister of consequence in Europe--not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
