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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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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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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Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
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The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.
