Abraham Cahan Quotes
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
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Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.
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I'm not that interested in people.
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
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Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
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I was a youngster looking up to dudes like Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie and Michael Socha - in fact, he was a big influence on how I was able to detach drama from the all-singing, all-dancing stigma.
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I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.
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Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.
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All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.
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When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
