Bartlett Sher Quotes
That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.
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There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.
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I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
