Barry Cryer Quotes
Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
Barry Cryer
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
Ted Nelson
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
Zadie Smith
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
Edmund Morgan
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
Patrick deWitt
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
Jack Nicklaus
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
Abraham Lincoln
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My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.
Lucy Deakins
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
Brian Posehn
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For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.
Dwayne Johnson
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When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
Enric Sala
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My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.
James Nesbitt
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The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.
Cheryl Hines
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The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.
John Calvin
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Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.
Gail Honeyman
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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
Kevin Spacey
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Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
Barry Cryer
