Joey Bishop Quotes
You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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If you put junk into your body, your body is going to give you junk results.
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I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.
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We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.
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My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.
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I hope that people will say that 'she told the truth, she told her truth, she wasn't afraid to live her truth, and she wasn't afraid to live her truth out loud.' That's what I want my legacy to look like.
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You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.
