Gary Bettman Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
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Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
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When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
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Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.
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There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.
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If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
