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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'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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It's always been important to us to be original, which sounds really easy when you say it. Everyone says it all the time, but it's actually not that easy to be original. It's also something scary because if you're doing stuff that doesn't sound like anything else, I think a lot of people get scared of that. A lot of people tend to follow instead, they wait for something else to do something new and then they follow that. We just don't like to do that.
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I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
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When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.
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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.
