Alan Schaaf Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
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People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
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There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.
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You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
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There are so many easier ways to live your life than to start a company.
