Josh Radnor quote: "And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that."

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, t...
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The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.
JOSH RADNOR

After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all '...
JOSH RADNOR

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is n...
JOSH RADNOR

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.
JOSH RADNOR

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.
JOSH RADNOR

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They fo...
JOSH RADNOR

We are so vocal about what we hate.
JOSH RADNOR

Time off from the news is always something I welcome.
JOSH RADNOR

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dro...
JOSH RADNOR

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I n...
JOSH RADNOR

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but...
JOSH RADNOR

I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'...
JOSH RADNOR

I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too...
JOSH RADNOR

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.
JOSH RADNOR

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller ...
JOSH RADNOR

Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find ...
JOSH RADNOR

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old ...
JOSH RADNOR

I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who...
JOSH RADNOR

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of ...
JOSH RADNOR

I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can reme...
JOSH RADNOR

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think i...
JOSH RADNOR

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can wa...
JOSH RADNOR

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about th...
JOSH RADNOR

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, cath...
JOSH RADNOR

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that...
JOSH RADNOR

When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something ab...
JOSH RADNOR

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have so...
JOSH RADNOR

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, a...
JOSH RADNOR

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track...
JOSH RADNOR

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-b...
JOSH RADNOR

My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's ...
JOSH TURNER

I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been...
JOSH TURNER

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and ...
JOSH TURNER

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.
JOSH TURNER

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.
JOSH TURNER

To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just...
JOSH TURNER

I've never had the patience of a teacher.
JOSH TURNER

Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look arou...
JOSH TURNER

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But n...
JOSH TURNER

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan...
JOSH TURNER

The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it ...
JOSH TURNER

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. ...
JOSH TURNER

Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing every...
JOSH TURNER

What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by ...
JOSH TURNER

I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I...
JOSH TURNER

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by...
JOSH TURNER

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wron...
JOSH TURNER

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota F...
JOSH TURNER

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no...
JOSH TURNER

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules...
JOSH TURNER

I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark tim...
JOSH TURNER

You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a...
JOSH TURNER

I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I...
JOSH TURNER

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
JOSH TURNER

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source...
JOSH GAD

It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there be...
JOSH BOWMAN

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these other...
JOSH MCDOWELL

My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My too...
JOSH BOWMAN

Despite everything I've been through, despite being a kid with a spotty background, the Clevelan...
JOSH GORDON

I have let down many in Cleveland - my Browns teammates, our hard-working coaching staff, the team&#...
JOSH GORDON

I see myself in a Cleveland Browns uniform and a return for Josh Gordon. Hopefully this time, the bi...
JOSH GORDON

I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some mar...
JOSH KEATON

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said &...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help y...
JOSH MCDANIELS

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than ...
JOSH GAD

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!
JOSH HOPKINS

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.
JOSH BILLINGS

In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.
JOSH PECK

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
JOSH BILLINGS

I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting mys...
JOSH PAIS

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwash...
JOSH HUTCHERSON

For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to...
JOSH HUTCHERSON

Boots, bushes, gardens, storefronts, buildings, streets, and stars. Why, she would have had to re-cr...
JOSH MALERMAN

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind o...
JOSH HOMME

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.
JOSH HOMME

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety...
JOSH BILLINGS

If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any s...
JOSH BILLINGS

Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that informati...
JOSH KELLER

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
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The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one
JOSH STERN

Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'

I tell my dat...
JOSH STERN

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
JOSH BILLINGS

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.
JOSH LANYON

A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end....
JOSH LANYON

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS

As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
JOSH BILLINGS

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's...
JOSH BILLINGS

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
JOSH JENKINS

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
JOSH BILLINGS

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corr...
JOSH BILLINGS

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectac...
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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he m...
JOSH BILLINGS

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethe...
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to...
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The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable...
JOSH BILLINGS

To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
JOSH BILLINGS

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any sa...
JOSH BILLINGS

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
JOSH MCDOWELL

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
JOSH BILLINGS

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to...
JOSH BILLINGS

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
JOSH BILLINGS

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
JOSH BILLINGS

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
JOSH BILLINGS

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
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Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, no...
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Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit nev...
JOSH BILLINGS

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
JOSH BILLINGS

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
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Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgme...
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing til...
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy ...
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To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter he...
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, t...
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Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his ...
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Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won t.
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful t...
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There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy ...
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...
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There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
JOSH BILLINGS

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
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Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool
JOSH BILLINGS

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
JOSH BILLINGS

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
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Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
JOSH BILLINGS

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I ...
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The less we know the more we suspect.
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My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in...
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...
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The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy...
JOSH BILLINGS

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it ge...
JOSH BILLINGS

Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
JOSH BILLINGS

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
JOSH BILLINGS

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
JOSH GROBAN

Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will ...
JOSH HARTNETT

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
JOSH LIEB

If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template,...
JOSH GREENBERG

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.
JOSH LIEB

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.
JOSH LIEB

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.
JOSH LIEB

Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and peopl...
JOSH LIEB

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
JOSH BILLINGS

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all...
JOSH LIEB

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead ...
JOSH HOMME

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit n...
JOSH BILLINGS

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

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And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Josh Radnor

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