Harold Ross Quotes
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the theater, and I feel very confident and comfortable on the stage and in front of a live audience, but the camera is a very different medium.
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I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.
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You are beautiful in every single way. Words can't bring you down.
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
