Madeline Kahn Quotes
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
