Gerry Schwartz Quotes
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I don't like attacking.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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I like being by myself.
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For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
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I wish I could be good at gymnastics.
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The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.
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It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.
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Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.
