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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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.
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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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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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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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It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'
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The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
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When people not accustomed to Washington came to the office, or when I met them on some special occasion, they often remarked that it seemed to be my busy day, to which my stock reply came to be that all days were busy and there was little difference among them.
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It's almost hip to, you know, be from Brooklyn or to live in Brooklyn.
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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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.
