Eric Maisel Quotes
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
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Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
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It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.
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Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
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You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
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You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
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It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That's always good; that's a constant.
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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
