Ed Wynn Quotes

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

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• Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Favorite
  • Ever
  • Michael

• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
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  • Thinking
  • Children

• I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Reed

• I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Family
  • English

• After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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  • World

• Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
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  • Long
  • Writing

• People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Generation
  • Youth

• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

  Fernando Torres
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• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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  • Growing
  • Listening

• I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  • Father
  • Parents

• Is it ever too late for a sequel?

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Late
  • Ever
  • Too Late

• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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  • Thinking

• Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

  

  Sally Field
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  • Hollywood
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• There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.

  

  Warren Moon
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  • House

• Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

  

  Olga Korbut
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  • Live
  • Friend

• I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.

  

  Walt Handelsman
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  • Think
  • Nice

• A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.

  

  Jack Horner
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  • End
  • New

• I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
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  • Women

• Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
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  • Past

• When we were children, every day after school, my brother and sister and I would go to my mother's office. It was full of pencils and marker and fabrics and beads. It was so much fun to be a child and to express my creativity through drawing and to playing dress-up in all of the wonderful and colorful clothes.

  

  Margherita Missoni
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  • Children
  • School

• During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.

  

  Lauren Conrad
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  • Holiday

• We're going to get off fossil fuels, no question. We may not do it quickly enough to avoid some pain, and I'm quite worried about that. But by the 22nd century, there's no way we'll be on fossil fuels.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • May
  • Question
  • Pain

• Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

  

  Ed Wynn
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  • Attached