Oliver Hardy Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.
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My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
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That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.
