Max Beerbohm Quotes
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
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When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
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I'm here to tell you I do [have a baby bump]. I am not pregnant, but I have had three kids and there is a bump.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
