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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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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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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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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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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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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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 think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.
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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
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Juvenile stuff has always made me laugh. It's what I know.
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I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
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I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.
