Marty Feldman Quotes
I carry Keaton's photo around with me to remind me what happened to him. If the Hollywood system can destroy him it can destroy me.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
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I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
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There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
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I don't think I ever used the word passive, but I do think he was looking to feed his teammates. He was looking to pass first and shoot later. This game, I want him to carry the threat.
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If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.
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He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.
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The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.
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I carry Keaton's photo around with me to remind me what happened to him. If the Hollywood system can destroy him it can destroy me.
