Abe Lemons Quotes
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Garry Kasparov -
I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.
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Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
