Sam Simon Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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You can't worry what people think.
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
