Dan Mazer Quotes
In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I always have to be writing.
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.
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Audit the Fed is a bill that would politicize monetary policy, would bring short-term political pressures to bear on the Fed. In terms of openness about our financial accounts, we are extensively audited.
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I think a lot of the Disney cartoons are scary when you watch them at a young age.
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When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.
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Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
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I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
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In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
