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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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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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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Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.
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I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.
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If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right kind of way.
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We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did was he pulled the world of politics into the world of reality television.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
