S. J. Perelman Quotes
I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
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Cecil Forrester was heir to many misfortunes, being handsome, rich, high-born, and clever.
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I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
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I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.
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Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
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I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.
