B. J. Porter Quotes
Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
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In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
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Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
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I didn't do too much. I came here to The Magic Castle and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.
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This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
