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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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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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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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.
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I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
