Sam Simon Quotes
I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I have rage and anger issues. So I get mad about stuff in real life, and then I yell about it onstage, and luckily, something funny ends up coming out. What I'll do is tape-record it, and it will end up coming out even funnier. And I add more punch lines.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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You would be amazed how many people call my office looking for work every day.
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It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
