Steven Sinofsky (Steven Jay Sinofsky) Quotes
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I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.
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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
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Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
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You are in front of your brother, but your mind is on many other things, so you don’t really see your brother. Maybe he is having some trouble, but you don’t see it, not even when you share the same room. But mindfulness brings you there, to the present, and then you see. Train yourself all day long to bring your mind to your body and to be present with your food, your friends, your work, everything, because the more you concentrate, the deeper you will see.
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Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.
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I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.
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Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.
