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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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You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around, you're only second best.
Lancey Howard speaking
Ring Lardner Jr.
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Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great. But when we start working on company-owned comics professionally, we have to think like storytellers instead of fans. Editors aren't looking to hire the biggest fans of the characters. They're looking to hire the best creators with the best ideas.
Greg Pak
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Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.
David Klass
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His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.
David Morrell
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If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.
Paul Brown
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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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Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
Antony Jay
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Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
Richard Benner
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Flo:
I've never been so insulted in my life.
Hackenbush:
Well, it's early yet.
Robert Pirosh
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Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a diver's veins to fizz with carbonated blood until he died a ghastly, percolating death; and rapture of the deep, which took away his reason, filled his heart with false contentment, and drew him down into the ocean gloom.
Stephen Harrigan
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It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead.
Sarah Dunn (author)
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Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it. I'm not a brave person— I'm more of a fearless idiot.
Nia Vardalos
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The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.
Peter Benchley
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Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.
Christos Tsiolkas
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In a profession where simple accountancy is preferable to a degree in English, illiteracy is not considered to be a great drawback.
Dominic Behan
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Bernie:
Can you help me? I have lost my sense of direction.
Kermit:
Have you tried Hare Krishna?
Jerry Juhl
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There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.
Michael Patrick King
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Because one morning as the sun was coming up I told myself that I had to swallow up all of the fear and garbage around me, and once it was inside me I had to transform it all into candy. Becuase I know you will be able to love me for it.
Mian Mian
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There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
Ken Bruen
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We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all.
Walon Green
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She had large, rather beautiful hazel eyes which she blinked rapidly from time to time. This habit gave her a timorous yet slightly defiant demeanour: the sort of girl who made a career out of being insecure.
Caroline Graham
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In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: 'It isn't, really it isnt, merely because you are so beautiful - though of course that is a large reason & so it should be - that I love you: it is your mind & your character - I have never known anyone like you in that - wont you believe me?
Jane Goldman
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It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.
James Agee
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Joe Gillis:
You used to be in pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond:
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
Charles Brackett
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