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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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
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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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Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
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Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.
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...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.
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I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys’ best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
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Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
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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.
