Larry Gelbart Quotes
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
