Harvey Korman Quotes
But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
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In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
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I think always what happens when you ask men questions on the red carpet, it's always based on what projects they're working on, whatever they're about, rather than this, 'Give us little tips for all of us women'... because we're all the same. Questions should just be more individual.
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I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
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One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps.
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Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.
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You don't have to answer someone's questions. That's just how I was raised.
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No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.
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Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.
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But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
