Spoken Reasons Quotes
I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.
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No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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It's funny, but as time goes by, I get stopped in airports all the time, and it's always about 'Shannon's Deal.'
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As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.
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I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
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I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.
