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Merle Shain Quotes

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1935 - 1989

Topics

Ten Years More Days Contentment Ten

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In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Michael Crichton

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When I got sober, that was 1990.

I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.

Work Survey Used Engineer Crew He

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

Water Survive Fish Environment You

You might think that after 40 years of practice you wouldn't need to practice anymore, but sadly it doesn't work that way. You still have to keep chugging away and perfecting.

Work Practice Think You Way Need

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

Past Long Too Much Make Much Which

I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.

Work Family Love Good People Comedy

There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.

Thomas Bangalter

Life Money You Creating Movies Well

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

Yourself Happy Mind Expectations You

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

Place Act Theater Before Verb Noun

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