Alan Patricof Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
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We need to make sure we have secure borders.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.
