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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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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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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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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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 think that our comfort is in our history.
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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'm a golfer not a history major.
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Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.
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You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.
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My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.
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We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
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A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
