W. C. Fields Quotes
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.
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I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
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Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.
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I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
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A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
