"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."

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Wilson Mizner

#Humble Quotes #Carpe Diem Quotes #Ego Quotes

“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”

Source : Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.
“I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit. But obviously, the major labels have more money to spend, so if they feel like spending it, they have bigger resources there when you need them. It doesn't always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you're playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that's sort of an expensive proposition.”

Source : "Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne and Ivy)". Mars Investigations Interview, www.marsinvestigations.net. October 31, 2005.
“I don't recommend ***** for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone, but for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete-incredible. Just legendary.”
“We [work] really hard to make sure we accomplish everything we want in life, but we don't think about being the president's daughter; we don't think about that, really.”
“Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?”
“Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your music as a way to tap into content. It's related to the way my text-based work still functions as abstraction for me. If I repeat a sentence down a canvas, the text starts to smudge and disappear. It essentially becomes an abstract piece. The meaning of the text is still there.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.”
“I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.”

Source : "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

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