Ed McMahon Quotes
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to war with Russia are pretty much ended. Mutually Assured Destruction was a doctrine that worked very well for decades as a deterrent, but the world has fundamentally changed.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
