Harry Shearer Quotes
You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
Mandy Bujold -
That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.
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My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.
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Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
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I'm sexing raw dog without protection.
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.
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Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.
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The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.
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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
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Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.
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You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.
