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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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Personal Development
"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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Personal Development
"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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Personal Development
"The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that."
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Personal Development
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
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Personal Development
"It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat."
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Personal Development
"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
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Personal Development
"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."
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Personal Development
"Advising gives a great illusion of superiority."
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Personal Development
"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."
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"They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things."
Time
"As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?"
Advice
"There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood."
Intelligence
"I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do."
Work
"Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!"
Work
"When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it."
Sound
"I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that."
Talent
"My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that."
People
"Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later."
Time
"He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really."
Humor
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