Howie Mandel Quotes
My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
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I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime.
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That is why I say the nation needs a leader. Dr. Manmohan Singh has not even visited all the states in the five years of his prime ministership, while Advaniji is a leader who has, at some point in time, spent a night in our 400 districts.
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Weisinger, a couple of years ago, made up the following story: 'Isaac Asimov was asked how Superman could fly faster than the speed of light, which was supposed to be an absolute limit. To this Asimov replied, 'That the speed of light is a limit is a theory; that Superman can travel faster than light is a fact.''
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I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.
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The biggest thing I think is, 'It's OK to care. It's OK to want to win and to be that team. To be upset when we lose.'
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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
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Come on, you can't name a truck after a chick.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
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Michael Jackson changed the format and history of music. His videos were films. He was the first who floated on the stage and changed the concept of a musical performance. He created something that's still the basis of a lot of what's done today.
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My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.
