Lorne Michaels Quotes

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• Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
• I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.
• The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins,
• You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.
• People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
• Talented people are restless at their core.
• To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
• If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room
• Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they…
• One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
• Yeah, I love Los Angeles.
• Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?
• It's better when they laugh, isn't it?
• It's really important that we get out there and we laugh. We're not going to be overly sappy.
• A 'Saturday Night Live' credit might look good on his resume!
• My role is to support it, protect it to the extent that I can, and encourage it. I have a regular job in New York,…
• The show doesnt go on because its ready; it goes on because its 11:30.
• If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every…
• Look, she really screwed up and it had a profound effect on her career. To me, it seemed it wasn't fair for someone that young…

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