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 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 have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
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I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.
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Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.
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Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
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I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
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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.
