Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
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That which is excellent endures.
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I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
