"Losing is the great American sin."

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Source : Jerome Holtzman (1978). “No Cheering in the Press Box”

Jerome Holtzman

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“So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of person who would skin someone alive. But the story behind it was that there was this guy who was a really great musician, and all the women loved him, and people started saying he was the best musician in the world, so Apollo got jealous and he challenged this guy to a musical dual. They would each play a song and the muses would judge who was the better musician.”

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“I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.”
“Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.”

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“Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.”
“I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.”
“Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you”
“one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young”
“During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.”

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