Lewis B. Hershey Quotes

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

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• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

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• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

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• You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

  

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• Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

  

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• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

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• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

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• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

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• The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.

  

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• I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

  

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• I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

  

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• Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

  

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• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

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• I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.

  

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• There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

  

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• A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

  

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• If the people like watching me, see me as an example of someone succeeding, as a young guy who has the will to win, then I'm happy.

  

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• Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

  

  Lewis B. Hershey
  • Guy
  • Stupid
  • Smart