Lew Wasserman Quotes
I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.
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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.