Paul Simon Quotes
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
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If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
