Burt Ward Quotes
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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I loved when my folks would watch 'The Dean Martin Show.'
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Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.
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I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
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Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.
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Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
