Neil Portnow (Neil R. Portnow) Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
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We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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I wasn't really fashion-conscious earlier.
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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
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I like to read. Autobiographies.
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When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
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I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard and make friends. Those are my daily goals, and I feel like those are the things that create opportunity and creating connections that will then lead to other things that I may not have planned for otherwise.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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& if I'm fake I aint notice cause my money aint
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.
