Paul Winchell Quotes
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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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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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?
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Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes. He did not, in other words, leave a lot of breaks in his testimony to allow for discussion. For the moment, that was fine, since it made it easier for Richard to drink.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.
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Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices.
