Alan Patricof Quotes
Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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I have two incredible sisters who have very high-powered jobs and kids and, you know, both have their master's; one runs triathlons all the time.
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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I would like to play Broadway!
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.
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Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.
