W. C. Fields Quotes
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
