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Sam Simon Quotes

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1955 - March 8, 2015

Topics

New York People Generosity Think New

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Character Great Rest Hurt Career

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

Morning I Am Page Two Over Empty

My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM's calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs.

Colleagues Engineers Digital Division

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Success People Winning Game Achieve

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

School Think Heaven Still

My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Europe and the home of Cabrales, a great blue cheese made in the Asturian mountains. When I was young, we moved to Barcelona. Whenever my mother was homesick for Asturias, she'd eat a little piece of Cabrales to bring her closer to Mieres.

Mother Home Beautiful Great Blue

That's what I love about geeks, that they can call themselves a geek and be proud of it. I love that. I even have a necklace with the word 'geek' spelled out in rhinestones, and I'm very proud, myself.

Love Myself Proud Necklace Out Call

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

Me Enough Abundance Opposite Kids

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Brunello Cucinelli

Debt Always Had Aversion

There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.

Good Doubt Bad Get No Doubt Very

Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in 'Weeds.' My manager says, 'you have to grow into yourself, Allison' because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39.

Character Yourself I Am Grow You

A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.

History American Triumph More Him

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