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Ed Asner Quotes

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 15, 1929

Topics

School High School Thought Loved

I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it's a very New York dream, but I think it's about writing - the feeling that there is something behind a wall or a door.

Live New York Door Writing Think

Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.

Respect Bright Listen Ignorant Kids

My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that.

People Laugh Goal Everything Show

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Courage Seeing Blindly Danger

It is beautiful to be what you are.

Jean Paul Gaultier

If you're not passionate about what you want to do, you won't be good at it.

Good You Want Passionate About

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

Failure Beach Busy Restaurant Year

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Joseph Priestley

Great Mind Process Nothing See He

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.

Dressed Get Just Slap Did Gates

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

Douglas Alexander

Politics People Judge You Choice

When I started playing basketball, they always would have me at the block, and I'm like, 'Yo, I don't want to play down here. I want to do something else.' This is not entertaining to me, and whatever the guards do, I wanted to do.

Me Basketball Down Play Want Always

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

Great Moment Project Air Up Script

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