Wilson Mizner Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.
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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.
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And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
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The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.
