S. J. Perelman Quotes
All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.
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I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
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Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.
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I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.
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The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
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Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest.
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All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.
