Jerry Coleman Quotes
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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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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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
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It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.
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Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
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We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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That transcends everything - skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer.
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I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
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The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
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Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.
