"Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit."

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Source : "Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire" by Kathleen Sharp, New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003.

Lew Wasserman

#Spotlight Quotes #Suits Quotes

“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.”
“How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?”
“I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.”
“For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person (on Margaret Thatcher)”

Source : TV Series "Mock the Week", (2005- ).
“When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It was royal-blue and very adult, and I thought, Gosh, this is great! But when my mum said to the assistant, "What's the lowest price you'll take for this?" I nearly died of shame, and wanted to run away.”
“I try not to pay much attention to what people say-I just try to concentrate on the game.”
“Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.”
“My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.”

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