Edwin Newman Quotes
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
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Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
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I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
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Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.
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We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
