Carl Reiner Quotes
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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
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Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.
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I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
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I'm 83 years old. Rock music I understand. Rap music I'm just about to understand. But you guys I will never understand. What were you as kids?
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If you send out good people into the world, you know you've done something good.
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
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Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor! You guys are so serious.
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I love tweeting. I tweet every day. I stay in contact, I tell them what I'm doing. I've posted pictures of my books on there and they buy the books. It's a very good way to communicate with people, but I can't go to bed without tweeting something. I have to tweet something.
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A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.
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There's some awfully good things done today and some awful terrible things done today,
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
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I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.
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I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.
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He's doing nothing different except not going to work. His life is still the same.
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People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.
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Can someone please explain to me what that was all about?