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When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.

She started converting objects of beauty into objects of value.

A young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork ...

We've had some fun tonight ... considering we're all gonna die someday.

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

I see other people crossing the street at the curb and I don't know how they can do it.

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

How many people have never raised their hand before?

It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.

A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

Finally, we do become wise, but then it's too late

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

Carl Reiner. He had an entrenched sense of glee; he used humor as a gentle way of speaking difficult truths;

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats ... or skinny.

When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language ... Apache.

What would any man do with a soggy girl who can't assert herself, who has a weak voice, and whose main personality component is helplessness?

There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

Some people have a way with words, and other people ... oh, uh, not have way.

I
believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up
her dress.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Always...no wait...never.....

Just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.

Introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

... you're nuts but you're welcome here.

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

She is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

I'm enamored with the art world.

I think communication is so firsbern.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars

I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.

There are few takers for the quiet heart.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

It's so beautiful where I am today that it makes me wonder where I am.

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was ... an arctic wilderness.

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

Ah, yes. I remember my first beer.

She appears sunny, a quality that Mirabelle can call upon only for special occasions.

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.

The banjo is such a happy instrument
you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

The only thing that bothers me is if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating and someone says, 'Hey, mind if I smoke?' I always say, 'No. Mind if I fart?

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?

There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

Being on Twitter is like having a fern.

At least Clarissa knows I'm benign. But that is not an adjective one wants to throw around about one's spouse: This is my husband. He's benign.

I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

I have found that
just as in real life
imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Now you see ... they' re not fit for humans ... " "Put them on me.

He had no college dreams and hence no proximity to the challenge of new faces and ideas.

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday ... unless there's a game on.

Somewhere in the world is ... The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.