Jack Lemmon Quotes
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.Jack Lemmon
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti -
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
Madchen Amick -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine -
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking -
I am a citizen of the world.
Abbas Kiarostami
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
Wale -
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky -
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
Lajos Kossuth -
If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
Irina Shayk -
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
P. J. O'Rourke -
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
Larry Wilcox -
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
Sam Palladio -
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
Rahul Kohli -
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
Vin Diesel
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A lot of the work in, say, construction or restaurants involves visual and motor flexibility. It also requires adaptability, in terms of answering questions, giving people directions, or taking orders.
David Autor -
I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.
James L. Brooks -
I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
Alan Cumming -
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead -
If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.
Frankie Cosmos -
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Jack Lemmon