Lorne Michaels Quotes

• If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

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  Looks, Rooms, Persons

  "Larry Ellison, Lorne Michaels, and other 'superbosses' use 3 unusual traits to identify top-performing employees" by Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. February 9, 2016.

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• I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

  Lorne Michaels

  Simple, Drink, Reason

  "In Conversation: Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels". Interview with Lane Brown, www.vulture.com. February 2, 2014.

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• The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Creative, Way

  "Lorne Michaels: the inscrutable kingmaker of comedy" by Jon Swaine, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2014.

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• 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 are.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Injustice, Whole Life

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• One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

  Lorne Michaels

  Knowing, Worry, Getting Older

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• Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

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  People, Risk, Nerves

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• Talented people are restless at their core.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Restless, Core

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• I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

  Lorne Michaels

  Thinking, Healthy, Way

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• 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.

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  Nice, Focus, Important

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• Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

  Lorne Michaels

  Wheels, Sometimes, Turns

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• A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

  Lorne Michaels

  Mother, Running, Uncles

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• 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.

  Lorne Michaels

  Writing, Creativity, Lines

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• 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.

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  Zoos, People, Laughing

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• You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

  Lorne Michaels

  Eye

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• I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

  Lorne Michaels

  Thinking, Voice, Originals

  "Marc Maron finally gets the truth about his failed "SNL" audition from Lorne Michaels" by Anna Silman, www.salon.com. November 9, 2015.

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• I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

  Lorne Michaels

  Community, Strategy, Consumerism

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• Everybody blows their first money.

  Lorne Michaels

  Blow, Firsts

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• Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

  Lorne Michaels

  Powerful, Class, Play

  "Marc Maron Finally Asked Lorne Michaels About His Infamous SNL Audition in an Instant-Classic Episode of 'WTF'" by Jesse David Fox, www.vulture.com. November 9, 2015.

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• 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 now and then and start again.

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  Thinking, Way, Now And Then

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• When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.

  Lorne Michaels

  Air, People, Dresses

  "Marc Maron Finally Asked Lorne Michaels About His Infamous SNL Audition in an Instant-Classic Episode of 'WTF'" by Jesse David Fox, www.vulture.com. November 9, 2015.

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