Emmett Kelly Quotes
A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.
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You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
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People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.
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I had a great experience working with Dynamite on Masks, and had just gotten started on a stint on The Shadow with them when they floated the idea of a Captain Action series. I've been a little obsessed with the character since I was first introduced to him in the pages of Amazing Heroes back in the early 1980s.
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A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
