Abraham Kaplan Quotes
The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.
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I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.
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Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
