Russell Baker Quotes
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to London and did the Royal Court, the National, 'King Lear' at the Manchester Royal Exchange. I did little bits of comedy, like 'Rab C Nesbitt,' but I wasn't predominantly about comedy.
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If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.
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Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
