Phil Hartman Quotes
I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.
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A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.
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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth.
