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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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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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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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
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What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.
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I try to give positive energy in all my shows.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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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.
