Larry Gelbart Quotes
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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QVC has been very good to me.
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An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
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Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting. Also, I liked 'I Am Legend' because it was so unexpected. The movie wasn't what I thought it'd turn out to be.
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I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn’t have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.
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We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.
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I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.
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I like my leaders smart and serious. I don't need a stand-up comic.
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Family is my fun.
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We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.
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People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
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My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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I'm a recovering optimist.
