Carl Reiner Quotes
Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.
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It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.
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There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.
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Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.
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Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
