Morley Safer Quotes
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
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I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?
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Living with computers gives funny ideas.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.
