Lew Wasserman Quotes
I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.
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I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
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I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.
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I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
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My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
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I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
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I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.
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I got with PETA for a fur campaign, specifically for fur.
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I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
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Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
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Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
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No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
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A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
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It starts with campaign finance reform.
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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.
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Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.
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I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.
