Agnes Moorehead Quotes
The entertainment industry today is too interested in the money. And the love of money is the root of all evil.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
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One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
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Pelorat sighed. 'I will never understand people.' 'There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.'
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
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I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.
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We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.
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The entertainment industry today is too interested in the money. And the love of money is the root of all evil.
