Buster Keaton Quotes
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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War is over if you want it.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.
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We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.
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As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It's really important for your livelihood and your well-being. And if you don't do that, you're going to fail; you're never going to be able to stand up on the cliff and jump off.
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If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
