Chris Tucker Quotes
Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
Garry Shandling
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
Tariq Anwar
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Talcott Parsons
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H. L. Mencken
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
Manmohan Singh
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. Wilson
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
Barry Jenkins
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
Okky Madasari
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
Carl Hiaasen
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
Patrick Macnee
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It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
Jack Buck
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
Orhan Pamuk
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God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?
Karen Blixen
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I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
Matthew McConaughey
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
Lake Bell
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You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
James L. Brooks
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In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.
Perry Como
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Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.
Chris Tucker