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Quotes by Entertainer
"What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence."
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"I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile."
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"Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window."
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"It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress."
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"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work."
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"The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights."
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"I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull."
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"The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier."
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"The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes."
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"Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis."
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"Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well."
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"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there."
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"There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies."
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"They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing."
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"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
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"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are."
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"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."
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"Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer."
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"I am actually wearing slacks on the show more than I ever have - it is now acceptable, and I like mixing it up."
Now,
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"A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made."
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"The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope."
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"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."
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"McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done."
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"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent."
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"You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry."
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"When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief."
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"I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years."
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"It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother."
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"I know a lot of gay males who I work with that are fantastic people and I love hanging out with them. But because I hang out and bring gay men into my life, does that mean that I'm gay? I promise you that I very much love women."
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"There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general."
Act,
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"I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now."
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"I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first."
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"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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"There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born."
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"Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great."
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"I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist."
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"I have to be a star like another man has to breathe."
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"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
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"I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking."
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"A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning."
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"Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up."
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"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times."
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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
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"I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings."
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"There is a sacred calling on your life, and the question is: Will you spend your life flittering and fluttering about or take the time and really heed that call and create your own path to your highest good?...You cannot let other people define your life for you. You are the author of your own life...Real power is when you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, the best it can be done. Authentic power. There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, "I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove." And nobody has to tell you, "You go, girl," because you know you're already gone."
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"Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now."
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