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.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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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.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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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.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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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.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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My version of makeup is a really intense skin regimen. I just think it's a healthier way to look at beauty.
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The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.
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I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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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.
