Richard Masur Quotes
I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
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You are what you eat, and you make what you hear.
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I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'
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Most grain foods, whether we're talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day - the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge.
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I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
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Fashion is all about references. All these names being thrown around.
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That's my mission: to make you feel something.
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Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
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Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.
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You don't have a voice yet when you first come out. So even though I knew I had some deeper songs, my first album had to be about the tempo and the fun.
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I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
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I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
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I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.
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Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.
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I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
