Joe Flaherty Quotes
That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I need instant gratification.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
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I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories.
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When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.
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That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.
