Eddie Mair Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
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I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
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Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.
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...makes my TV work look professional.
