Oliver Hardy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
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As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.
