Martin Short Quotes
David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
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Authenticity, to me, is something that you feel, and if it doesn't feel authentic, you pick up on it right away.
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I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
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I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you're pandering or something.
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I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.
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David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.
