Jerry Coleman Quotes
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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I try to cope with everything through humor.
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one.
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I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
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Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.
