#own

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy. ↗

— Brian Koslow

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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#because #die #i #known #largest

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering. ↗

— John Dykstra

#build #camera #constantly #devices #down

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#city #dallas #end #home #home town

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ↗

— Edward Everett Hale

#doctors #ever #exquisite #form #hypocrites

Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#could #deliberately #down #hear #his way

When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#break #come #down #experience #feeling

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody. ↗

— Bill Haley

#everybody #i #line #night #rock

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

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I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#answer #any #because #business #calls