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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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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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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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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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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In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
