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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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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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.
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I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly.
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Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
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Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices.
