Eric Maisel Quotes
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
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There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.
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I always have stress.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
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Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.
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Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
