S. J. Perelman Quotes
This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.
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I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.
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This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
