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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My thing has always been, I've never been very open and vulnerable with people, so the minute I got this dog, everything changed. It just opened me up and made me more loving... It's all because of him... He's made me a better person... I can tell people what I feel now. I can cry in front of people sometimes.
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Waking up every morning with a company is a lot of pressure. But when you're aware of what other people are waking up with, it's a whole lot easier.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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Live life to the fullest. Follow your dreams - don't let anything stop you.
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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.
