David Mandel Quotes

I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God, what are people going to think, then you're not writing comedy. You have to write what makes you laugh, and then the world hopefully laughs as well.

David Mandel

• God
• Writing
• Laugh
• Writer
• Part
• Confident
• Hopefully
• Worrying

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• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Happiness
  • Absence
  • Striving

• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Finish
  • Coach

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Today
  • Guilty

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Today
  • Information

• I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Stress
  • Prejudice

• I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

  

  Sally Struthers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Young

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Important
  • Think
  • Political

• I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Fighting
  • Spirit
  • Army

• I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Mean

• My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Home
  • She
  • House

• I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Hard
  • Stuff
  • Very

• The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Great
  • Law

• 'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'

  

  Connie Willis
  • Women
  • She

• Me siento muy orgullosa de ser Mexicana, yo no tuve la oportunidad de aprender mi Español cuando estaba muy chica, pero ... nunca es tarde para acercarse a sus raíces. (Spanish for, I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish when I was a girl, but ... it's never too late to get in touch with your roots.)

  

  Selena
  • Girl
  • Opportunity
  • Proud

• If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Money
  • Together

• I'm a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Strong
  • Moving

• I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

  

  Luke Treadaway
  • Music
  • Night

• There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

  

  A. S. Byatt

• I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

  

  Amanda Hocking
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Famous

• I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that freedom, then, as someone has said, are we all writing our autobiographies?

  

  Uwem Akpan
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God, what are people going to think, then you're not writing comedy. You have to write what makes you laugh, and then the world hopefully laughs as well.

  

  David Mandel
  • God
  • Writing
  • Laugh