Abe Burrows Quotes
You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.
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I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.
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I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?
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R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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I don't think we want to call anything until the courts have their final say.
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I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.
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You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
