Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
Quotes to Explore
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.
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I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
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'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.
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The work that I do with all of my characters is have some sense of where they come from. I kind of create my own story for myself. What's going on with my parents? Are they alive? Or family - do I have children? Do you see those things or not?
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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Don’t make your story too big. I don’t want you big-noting me.
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Looking back, my style was pretty much Marvel house style - very large, thick characters, very musclebound, not very flexible.
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
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Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
