Louie Anderson Quotes
I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him.
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I'm a proud family man.
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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I miss my kids, and they miss me. It's very difficult, but I have to do it for my country and fulfill my dreams coming to the 2012 London Olympics.
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I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.
