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Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am…

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Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image…
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it…
You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every…
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer…
Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some…
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.
Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short…
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner…
I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy…

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Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it. — Maureen O'Hara
Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short… — John D. MacDonald
Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. — Tina Weymouth
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over… — John Mortimer
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — T. E. D. Klein
My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to… — Noel Fielding
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. — John Ratzenberger
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor. — Anjelica Huston
Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny,… — Jaimie Alexander
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and… — John Mortimer
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones -… — F. Sionil Jose
If we were making a cop comedy about bad cops or cops who were comically bad at the jobs, then the jokes… — Daniel J. Goor

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