Harland Williams Quotes
I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
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I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.
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My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee films.
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If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
