Ted Dexter Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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I don't know what love means.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions. Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
