Clive Anderson Quotes
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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So often, generalizations don't apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining to the budget and funding Medicaid and Medicare and what happens to the environment.
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I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?
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The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower garden, the shrubs and the trees, the vegetable garden, all these things.
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I like being forced to think about things in a different way.
