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Eli Broad Quotes

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1933

Topics

Time Death Lawyers Bored My Time

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

Adventure You Find Inside Kid Still

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

You Want Emotional Shirt Act Seen

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

Character Time Mom Bond Over Single

A lot of stand-up comedians are actually very insecure, and they come on slightly battling the audience. They want to be the superior person in the room, sneering at the world. That can be very funny. But to me, what's more interesting is that the world is on my shoulders, and it's pushing me down.

Stephen Merchant

Funny Me World Interesting Down

Accessible design is good design.

Good Design Accessible

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

Stanley Baldwin

Truth Diversity I Am Testimony Much

I don't choose characters with the intention of working something out in my personal life.

Life Choose Intention Personal Out

If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.

I Am Universe Acting Play Know Real

Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.

Love Country Place Nothing Changing

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

Myself Happy Repeating Just

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'

Brendan Fletcher

Good Music Me Writing Story Loved

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Power History Great Humor Leaders

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