Martin Short Quotes
Ed Grimley lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
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You do wonder - when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are struggling to draw breath and every limb aches - why do I do this?
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I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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Ed Grimley lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.
