Clara Mamet Quotes
Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
Quotes to Explore
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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No one behind you gets the appreciation they deserve.
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I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.
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One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.
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Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
