Lewis Grizzard Quotes
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I am who I am.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I can paint in jail.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.
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The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.
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The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
