Wilson Mizner Quotes
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
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I think a lot of people on Twitter say, 'Oh you're really cute. I want to adopt you,' and things like that, yeah.
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We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.
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There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.
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If you had asked me when I was in Yale, I would tell you I never would have thought it would happen because I just didn't think of myself of having the Hollywood look.
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Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.
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Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
