W. C. Fields Quotes
I have been in the entertainment business some forty-three years, and I have never said anything detrimental or anything that might be construed as belittling any race or religion. I would be a sucker to do so because you can't insult the customers.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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Next fight? If the UFC tell me, 'What do you want?' I'm going to say Tony Ferguson.
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.
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I have been in the entertainment business some forty-three years, and I have never said anything detrimental or anything that might be construed as belittling any race or religion. I would be a sucker to do so because you can't insult the customers.
