Walter Becker Quotes
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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I like to have something to base a role on.
Sam Heughan
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
Valerie Bertinelli
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
Frances Wright
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
Adam Arkin
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
Zoey Deutch
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Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
Ian Dunbar
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
Flip Wilson
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Felix Frankfurter
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
Barry McGuire
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Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
Umberto Eco
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
Barry Mann
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The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.
Paul Krugman
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Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
Christian McKay
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'Playing House' works because we're being supremely honest to what we think is funny and not what we think other people think is funny.
Lennon Parham
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When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'
Jacqueline Woodson
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I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.
Max Apple
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker
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