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 hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
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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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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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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 played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
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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.
