Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
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The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
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In fact, my methodology is based on the idea of waiting for when inspiration arrives for the actors. And that means that the light, the cinematography, everything has to be ready for that moment, so they don't have to wait.
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If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.
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Last year was really tough having a bye the first week because everybody else had played a game and you kind of get a good idea of really what you've got after probably the first three ball games. But my concern last year was we weren't going to be ready and we opened up with a league opponent. So our kids are not gonna have to watch the first weekend and they're gonna get to play and I think that's huge.
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The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
