Carl Reiner Quotes
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.Carl Reiner
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
Dan Gilbert -
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
Yoko Ono -
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
Zadie Smith -
Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
Larry Craig -
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
Jackie Collins -
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
Pat Buchanan
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
Mae Jemison -
I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
Vicki Lawrence -
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
Caleb Cushing -
I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
Pamela Anderson -
I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
Barbara Kopple -
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
Sade Adu -
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Walter Smith -
I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
Sam Elliott -
Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
Carly Patterson -
I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
Damian Loeb
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I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.
Aaron Rodgers -
When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.
Andy Garcia -
To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
Manoj Bhargava -
So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
Patricia Hewitt -
I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.
Yoko Ono -
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.
Carl Reiner