Adrian Edmondson Quotes

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Adrian Edmondson

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• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Time
  • You
  • Know

• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Racism
  • Mission

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • True
  • Me
  • Femininity

• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Air
  • Story
  • Tell

• It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Influence
  • Impossible
  • View

• I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• Just keep taking chances and having fun.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Having Fun

• True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

  

  Barton Booth
  • True
  • Sun
  • Needle

• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Brilliant

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Know
  • Play

• I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • People
  • Trying
  • Home

• Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

  

  Larry King
  • Stories
  • Favorite
  • Les

• If you are feeling some December blues, or even depression, don't fight it. Instead, do something for yourself. Be reflective. Let the emotions exist. And be encouraged that, like me, you can get to a better place, but it can take time.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Depression

• I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Cutting

• It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.

  

  Franz Boas
  • Life

• You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

  

  Adrian Edmondson
  • Comedy