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I always grieve for the poor souls who have to grind out a daily humorous column or a weekly piece.
S. J. Perelman
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That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!
David Benioff
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There was laughter in the back of the theatre, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.
George S. Kaufman
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
Sue Grafton
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Writing a novel- actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs- is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV's so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it's damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.
Steve Hely
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Look, it's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive. It's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive!
Garrett Fort
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To Christopher Isherwood who had caught a bad cold and was saying apologetically that he should have cancelled their meeting:
My dear Christopher, any cold of yours is a cold of mine.
George Axelrod
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It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.
Pamela Ribon
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Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.
Robert McKee
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You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.
Jonathan Tropper
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We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
Lillian Hellman
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Don't forgive and never forget; do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves.
David Jacobs
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All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.
Helene Hanff
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There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.
Moss Hart
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I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.
Cornell Woolrich
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As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
David Mamet
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I like to say I don't believe in mystics. I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
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It's an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
William Goldman
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Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.
Thomas Harris
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Heroes, while it was cancelled last year for low ratings on the network, ironically was the number one downloaded show in the world that year above shows like Lost and 24 and that kind of thing. For a show like Heroes that had all of these illegal downloading, pirating, I wore that as a badge of honour. That's exactly the kind of fan that you want! The kind that actively goes out and find your show.
Tim Kring
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The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.
Larry Kramer
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Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear again:
Let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here again!
Jack Yellen
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Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it's hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don't get off is it's still fifty blocks from where you're going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it's still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I've had enough, it's my stop. I've had enough.
Marsha Norman
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You go for a man hard enough and fast enough, he don't have time to think about how many's with him; he thinks about himself, and how he might get clear of that wrath that's about to set down on him.
Coen brothers
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With such exquisite play-acting, you make this very room a theater.
Ernest Lehman
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